TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stearns,Justin K.
TI  - Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean
SN  - 9781421401058
AV  - RB152 .S74 2011 
U1  - 362.196/9 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Diseases-Causes and theories of causation-History-To 1500
KW  - Medicine, Medieval-Western Mediterranean
KW  - Epidemiology-History-To 1500
KW  - Medicine-Religious aspects-Islam-History-To 1500
KW  - Medicine-Religious aspects-Christianity-History-To 1500
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronological List of Relevant Muslim and Christian Scholars Who Wrote on Contagion in the Premodern Period -- Introduction. Contagion and Causality in the Study of Premodern Muslim and Christian Societies -- Chapter 1. Contagion in the Commentaries on Prophetic Tradition -- Chapter 2. Contagion as Metaphor in Iberian Christian Scholarship -- Chapter 3. Contagion Contested: Greek Medical Thought, Prophetic Medicine, and the First Plague Treatises -- Chapter 4. Situating Scholastic Contagion between Miasma and the Evil Eye -- Chapter 5. Contagion between Islamic Law and Theology -- Chapter 6. Contagion Revisited: Early Modern Maghribi Plague Treatises -- Conclusion. Reframing Muslim and Christian Views on Contagion -- Appendix A. Contagion in the Christian Exegetical Tradition -- Appendix B. The Presence of Ash[sup(c)]arism in the Maghrib -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
N2  - Based on Stearns's analysis of Muslim and Christian legal, theological, historical, and medical texts in Arabic, Medieval Castilian, and Latin, Infectious Ideas is the first book to offer a comparative discussion of concepts of contagion in the premodern Mediterranean world
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