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

By: Stearns, Justin K, 1974-.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011Description: xx, 279 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0801898730 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780801898730 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation -- History -- To 1500 | Epidemiology -- History -- To 1500 | Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500 | Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History -- To 1500 | Medicine, Medieval -- Western Mediterranean | Medicine in Literature -- Africa, Northern | Medicine in Literature -- Portugal | Medicine in Literature -- Spain | Christianity -- history -- Africa, Northern | Christianity -- history -- Portugal | Christianity -- history -- Spain | Communicable Diseases -- Africa, Northern | Communicable Diseases -- Portugal | Communicable Diseases -- Spain | Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Africa, Northern | Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Portugal | Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Spain | Islam -- history -- Africa, Northern | Islam -- history -- Portugal | Islam -- history -- Spain | Leprosy -- history -- Africa, Northern | Leprosy -- history -- Portugal | Leprosy -- history -- Spain | Plague -- history -- Africa, Northern | Plague -- history -- Portugal | Plague -- history -- SpainGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 362.196/9
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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