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050 4 _aRB152 .S74 2011
082 0 _a362.196/9
100 1 _aStearns, Justin K.
245 1 0 _aInfectious Ideas :
_bContagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aBaltimore :
_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
_c2011.
264 4 _c©2011.
300 _a1 online resource (302 pages)
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aCover -- 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.
520 _aBased 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aDiseases-Causes and theories of causation-History-To 1500.
650 0 _aMedicine, Medieval-Western Mediterranean.
650 0 _aEpidemiology-History-To 1500.
650 0 _aMedicine-Religious aspects-Islam-History-To 1500.
650 0 _aMedicine-Religious aspects-Christianity-History-To 1500.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aStearns, Justin K.
_tInfectious Ideas
_dBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,c2011
_z9780801898730
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4398382
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