UID:
almahu_9948327008802882
Format:
1 online resource (302 pages)
ISBN:
9781421401058 (e-book)
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Stearns, Justin K. Infectious ideas : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2011] ISBN 9780801898730
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
