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Infectious Ideas : Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421401058
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Infectious IdeasDDC classification:
  • 362.196/9
LOC classification:
  • RB152 .S74 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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