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

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Stearns, Justin K., 1974-
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011.
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xx, 279 p. ; 24 cm.
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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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ISBN
9780801898730 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801898730 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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