Merits of the plague:

"The first English translation of the Islamic world's preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics A Penguin Classic Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and religious thought-an esteemed judge, poet, and scholar in Cairo-survived the bubonic plague, which t...

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1. Verfasser: Ibn-Ḥaǧar al-ʿAsqalānī, Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAlī 1372-1449 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Blecher, Joel 1982- (HerausgeberIn, ÜbersetzerIn), Syed, Mairaj (HerausgeberIn, ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Arabic
Veröffentlicht: [London] Penguin Books [2023]
Schriftenreihe:Penguin classics
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Zusammenfassung:"The first English translation of the Islamic world's preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics A Penguin Classic Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and religious thought-an esteemed judge, poet, and scholar in Cairo-survived the bubonic plague, which took the lives of three of his children, not to mention tens of millions of others throughout the medieval world. Holding up an eerie mirror to our own time, he reflects on the origins of plagues-from those of the Prophet Muhammad's era to the Black Death of his own-and what it means that such catastrophes could have been willed by God, while also chronicling the fear, isolation, scapegoating, economic tumult, political failures, and crises of faith that he lived through. But in considering the meaning of suffering and mass death, he also offers a message of radical hope. Weaving together accounts of evil jinn, religious stories, medical manuals, death-count registers, poetry, and the author's personal anecdotes, Merits of the Plague is a profound reminder that with tragedy comes one of the noblest expressions of our humanity: the practice of compassion, patience, and care for those around us"--
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis Seite [xxxvii]-xl
Übersetzung basiert auf der von Aḥmad ʿIṣām ʿAbd-al-Qādir al-Kātib veranstalteten Ausgabe von 1991 (ar-Riyāḍ): "In general, we relied on Aḥmad ʿIṣām ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Kātib's 1991 Arabic edition of this text. Al-Kātib consulted several early manuscript versions of the text at libraries in Aleppo, Damascus, and Istanbul--including one from the Sulaymaniyah library that was dated to the summer of 1448, just months before Ibn Ḥajar's death."--Galley
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Beschreibung:liv, 268 Seiten 1 Karte 20 cm
ISBN:9780143136613
0143136615

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