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Author Stearns, Justin K., 1974- author.

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

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2011]
2011

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Description 1 online resource (302 pages)
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject 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 1500.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Stearns, Justin K. Infectious ideas : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2011] xx, 279 pages ; 24 cm 9780801898730 (OCoLC)ocn614271501
ISBN 9780801898730 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801898730 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421401058 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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