This article examines ʿAbd al-Ilah al-Qinaʿi's early 20th-century melding of local, imperial, and transoceanic health practices alongside his 21st-century reemergence as a protonational Kuwaiti doctor. In the early 20th century, geographically and ideologically expansive horizons of health care fostered the emergence of hybrid medical practices. Facilitated by his access to multiple medical spheres and his proximity to Kuwait's rulers, ʿAbd al-Ilah was uniquely positioned to meet the demands of health-seeking consumers. In the 21st century, Kuwaitis' search for a national history that naturalizes claims to citizenship has resulted in ʿAbd al-Ilah's new designation as Kuwait's first doctor. Both processes—the interplay between local cultures of health and emergent institutions and the imagining of medical history as a nativist teleology—demonstrate how health-seeking and history-writing efforts of a range of historical actors have placed medicine at the center of politics in Kuwait.

本文探讨了 ʿAbd al-Ilah al-Qinaʿi 在 20 世纪早期融合了地方、帝国和跨洋健康实践，以及他在 21 世纪重新成为科威特原籍医生的情况。在 20 世纪初期，医疗保健在地理和意识形态上的广阔视野促进了混合医疗实践的出现。ʿAbd al-Ilah 接触多个医疗领域并与科威特统治者关系密切，因此他在满足寻求健康的消费者的需求方面处于独特的地位。在 21 世纪，科威特人寻求将公民身份要求自然化的民族历史导致 ʿAbd al-Ilah 被任命为科威特的第一位医生。