Infectious ideas : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean / Justin K. Stearns.
2011
RB152 .S74 2011 (Mapit)
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Infectious ideas : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean / Justin K. Stearns.
Author
Stearns, Justin K., 1974-
ISBN
9780801898730 (alk. paper)
0801898730 (alk. paper)
0801898730 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xx, 279 p. ; 24 cm.
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RB152 .S74 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.196/9
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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.