... by University of Oklahoma 2015 medical diplomacy Yemen ship surgeons Qasimi imams Works Cited Abdullah Thabit . 2001 . Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder: The Political Economy of Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Basra . Albany : State University of New York Press . Talib Abu al...

... doctor’s unexpected role as an ambassador. Weaving together a montage of sources from European — including Dutch, English, and French — and Arabic accounts, she shows how the Qasimi ruler Imam al-­Mahdi Muhammad bin al-­Mahdi Ahmad actively sought cures from foreign doctors who accompanied various...