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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421401058 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Infectious ideas : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean.DDC classification:
  • 362.196/9 22
LOC classification:
  • RB152 .S74 2011eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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