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Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean 1st Edition

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  1. ISBN-10
    0801898730
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    978-0801898730
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    Johns Hopkins University Press
  5. Publication date
    April 1, 2011
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6 x 0.97 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    304 pages
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A welcome addition to the growing literature on plague―and medical thought―in the premodern Islamic world. Stearns's translations add new voices to those already known, and approach known figures with subtlety and nuance, challenging or at least refining the conclusions of the established scholarship . . . Stearns has provided future students commanding the requisite skills and depth of vision both a model and a solid target.
―Joseph P. Byrne, American Historical Review

Provides readers not only with a fascinating, beautifully researched account of contagion and plague in the premodern Western Mediterranean, but also with a series of thought-provoking new approaches to religious exegesis, legal interpretation, and literary production, and a set of methodological models that should serve scholars in the fields far beyond the realm of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century studies of illness and health in the Maghrib. The book is a fascinating read.
―Ruth A. Miller, Journal of the American Oriental Society

About the Author

Justin K. Stearns is an assistant professor in the Arab Crossroads Studies Program at New York University–Abu Dhabi.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st edition (April 1, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0801898730
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801898730
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.97 x 9 inches

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Justin Stearns received his BA in English and History from Dartmouth College in 1998, and his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2007. He is an Associate Professor in the Arab Crossroads Studies Program at New York University Abu Dhabi.

His research interests focus on the intersection of law, the natural sciences, and theology in the pre-modern Muslim Middle East. His first book was Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Pre-Modern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean ((Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) and he has published articles in Islamic Law and Society, Medieval Encounters, Al-Qantara, and History Compass as well as a number of edited volumes. His book on the social status of the natural sciences in early modern Morocco, Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Early Modern Morocco appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2021, and the first volume of his edition and translation of al-Yusi’s (d. 1102/1691) Discourses appeared with the Library of Arabic Literature in 2020. His graduate work received support from both Fulbright and Fulbright-Hayes Fellowships for study in Spain and Morocco, and his subsequent research has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, the American Institute for Maghrebi Studies, the NYUAD Research Enhancement Fund, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

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