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Fancy, Nahyan, "Knowing the Signs of Disease: Plague in Arabic Medical Commentaries Between the First and Second Pandemics", dins: Jones, Lori - Varlik, Nükhet (eds.), Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World, Woodbridge - York, York Medieval Press - Boydell & Brewer York (Health and Healing in the Middle Ages, 4), 2022, 35-66.

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The new religion of Islam emerged during the course of the First Plague Pandemic. Also referred to as the Justinianic Plague after the Byzantine Emperor Justinian (r. 527–65), in whose reign the plague pandemic is traditionally assumed to have begun (541), the origins of this significant disease episode are being studied anew. Historians, chief amongst them Lawrence Conrad, have examined the impact of this first pandemic on the burgeoning Islamic polity in Western Asia and North Africa, as well as on Islamic religious thought over the subsequent centuries.³ Although plague was discussed often in literary works throughout the Abbasid...

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