IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 842: Disease in the Medieval Islamicate World, IV: Retrieving the Corpus of Plague Treatises
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Nahyan Fancy, Department of History, DePauw University, Indiana Monica Green, Department of History, Arizona State University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ahmed Tahir Nur, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University |
| Paper 842-a | 'Uthmānī's Healing the Grieving Heart: On the Exposition of Issues around the Plague (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Medicine, Social History |
| Paper 842-b | llyas b. Ibrahim's Shield from Plagues and Epidemics (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Medicine, Science, Theology |
| Paper 842-c | Idrīs-i Bidlīsī's Refraining from Epidemic-Stricken Places (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Medicine, Science, Theology |
| Paper 842-d | A Synthesising and Canonical Plague Treatise in the 16th-Century Ottoman Capital: Risālat al-shifā' li-adwā' al-wabā' (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Medicine |
| Abstract | Despite the existence of Michael Dols' extensive 1977 survey of surviving plague treatises, there has been no concerted effort in the subsequent half century to index, edit, or translate the known Arabic and Turkish works from the medieval and early modern periods. The scholars presenting in this panel are involved in a much-needed comprehensive project, based in Turkey, to catalog, describe, and edit this corpus, which is guaranteed to transform our understanding of plague's social and intellectual history. In addition to the three listed papers, project leader Mustakim Arıcı will be presenting on Taşköprīzāde Aḥmed Efendi's (1495-1561) Risālat al-shifā' li-adwā' al-wabā'. |