Infectious ideas : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean /

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Main Author: Stearns, Justin K., 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2011]
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Table of Contents:
  • Contagion in the commentaries on prophetic tradition
  • Contagion as metaphor in Iberian Christian scholarship
  • Contagion contested : Greek medical knowledge, prophetic medicine, and the first plague treatises
  • Situating scholastic contagion between miasma and the evil eye
  • Contagion between Islamic law and theology
  • Contagion revisited : early modern Maghribi plague treatises
  • Reframing Muslim and Christian views on contagion.