IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 742: Disease in the Medieval Islamicate World, III: Plague's Legacies
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Nahyan Fancy, Department of History, DePauw University, Indiana Monica Green, Department of History, Arizona State University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Nükhet Varlik, Department of History University of South Carolina |
| Paper 742-a | Reusing and Revisiting the Signs and Effects of Plague during the Second Pandemic (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Medicine |
| Paper 742-b | Ibn Ḥajar's Merits of the Plague as an Exemplary Work of a Hadith Scholar's Synthetic Method (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Medicine |
| Paper 742-c | The Spice Trade and the Origins of the Plague in the Medieval Islamic Social Imaginary (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Medicine, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Because plague's legacies trace back to Islam's founding, writers in the 14th and 15th centuries were faced with a wealth of opinion, in hadith commentaries and in medicine. Fancy (a) looks at the earliest synthesizers, one historian and one physician who attempted to make sense of their current crisis through the lens of prior tradition. Syed (b) looks at the synthesizing work of the 14th/15th-century author, Ibn Ḥajar al-'Asqalānī (1372-1449), who sought to reconcile contradictory truth-claims from different discursive methods and traditions. Blecher (c) also focuses on Ibn Ḥajar, but looks at his political and economic context. |