Scholars, Sufis, and disease: Can Muslim religious works offer us novel insights on plagues and epidemics among the medieval and early modern Ottomans?

Authors

John J. Curry, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Editors

Nukhet Varlik (Ed.)

Document Type

Book Section

Publication Date

3-1-2017

Publication Title

Plague and Contagion in the Early Islamic Mediterranean: New Histories of Disease in Ottoman Society

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Publisher Location

Newark, NJ

Abstract

Discusses how recurrent outbreaks of plague appeared in various religious texts over the course of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean

Language

eng

Repository Citation

Curry, J. J. (2017). Scholars, Sufis, and disease: Can Muslim religious works offer us novel insights on plagues and epidemics among the medieval and early modern Ottomans?. In Nukhet Varlik (Ed.), Plague and Contagion in the Early Islamic Mediterranean: New Histories of Disease in Ottoman Society Newark, NJ: Rutgers University Press.