Incantation and equipment for facilitating childbirth in Islamic epoch

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This research is entitled *Incantation and equipment for facilitating childbirth in Islamic epoch’.

It illuminates the care and charge given to childbirth.

This care appears in specifying incantations and exorcism to facilitate childbirth, using seats with spccial design, and designating special isolated place known as ‘Sandala’ for the confined woman and her new bom baby to stay there for 40 days away from any germs; while both are of weak immune.

This research depends on historical and descriptive methodology.

It deals with one of the historical resources wliich are 'Maqamat Al-HarirV, especially the 39'h ‘maqama’.

This 'maqdma' encloses an incantation for the fetus.

Moreover, some monumental structures of both Mamluk and Ottoman epochs are mentioned here.

These are the house of Amna bent Salem that encloses a collection of birth scats and stools,1 and the house of Zainab Khatoon that encloses a '■Sandala'.

This research is divided into; Incantation of throes for childbirth, Birthing seats and stools, and Special birth room with annexed Sandala.