TY - BOOK AU - Stearns,Justin K. ED - Project Muse. TI - Infectious ideas: contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean SN - 9781421401058 AV - RB152 .S74 2011 U1 - 362.196/9 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Plague KW - history KW - Spain KW - Portugal KW - Africa, Northern KW - Leprosy KW - Islam KW - Cross-Cultural Comparison KW - Communicable Diseases KW - Christianity KW - Medicine in Literature KW - Medicine KW - Religious aspects KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Epidemiology KW - Medicine, Medieval KW - Western Mediterranean KW - Diseases KW - Causes and theories of causation KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781421401058/ ER -