Infectious ideas : : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean / / Justin K. Stearns.

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Place / Publishing House:Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, [2011]
2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (302 pages)
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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.