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Infectious ideas : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean
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Title
Infectious ideas : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean / Justin K. Stearns.
ISBN
9780801898730 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801898730 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
xx, 279 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 18, 2011
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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