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

By: Stearns, Justin K, 1974- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2011]Copyright date: 2011Description: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781421401058Subject(s): Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation -- History -- To 1500 | Medicine, Medieval -- Western Mediterranean | Epidemiology -- History -- To 1500 | Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History -- To 1500 | Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Infectious ideas : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean.DDC classification: 362.196/9 LOC classification: RB152 | .S74 2011Online resources: Click to View
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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