Autor: Lawrence I. Conrad

This is the first translation of a classic work (Bahth fi nnsh‘ at ‚ilm al ta‘ rikh ‚inda l-‚Arab) by the eminent Arab historian A. A. Duri. Published in Beirut in 1960, Duri’s book was the first com …

Contagion – even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify. The nine essays gathered here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of diseas …

Contagion – even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify. The nine essays gathered here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of diseas …