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020			_a9780143136613
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a614.5 _bIBN/ME
100			_aIbn Hajar al-Asqalani
245			_aMERITS OF THE PLAGUE
250			_a1
260			_bPenguin Books _c2023/01/01
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500			_a"The first English translation of the Islamic world's preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics. 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"
650			_aPlague History-- Early works to 1800
650			_aPlague-- Religious aspects-- Islam
650			_aPlague history
650			_aPandemics history
650			_aMEDICAL / Internal Medicine
700			_aBlecher,Joel (ed. & tr.) _aSyed,Mairaj (ed. & tr.)
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