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Infectious ideas contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean
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Title
Infectious ideas [electronic resource] : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean / Justin K. Stearns.
ISBN
1421401053
9781421401058
0801898730 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801898730 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xx, 279 p. )
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 History Collection.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 27, 2012
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.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Cross-Cultural Comparison - Africa, Northern.
Cross-Cultural Comparison - Portugal.
Cross-Cultural Comparison - Spain.
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