Merits Of The Plague
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Author | : Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2023-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0525508112 |
The preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics from the Islamic world, now in English for the first time 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.
Author | : Nükhet Varlik |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2015-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107013380 |
This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state.
Author | : H. John Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Protestantism |
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Author | : Arthur Marmorstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Merit (Jewish theology). |
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Author | : Jeff Hirsch |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0545290147 |
Twenty years after the wars that followed The Collapse, 15-year-old Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging. But when his grandfather dies and his father decides to risk everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen's life is turned upside down.
Author | : Orhan Pamuk |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House India Private Limited |
Total Pages | : 801 |
Release | : 2022-10-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9354927521 |
It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria-the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire-located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives-brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from the Mecca or by merchant vessels coming from Alexandria-the island revolts. To stop the epidemic, the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II sends his most accomplished quarantine expert to the island-an Orthodox Christian. Some of the Muslims, including followers of a popular religious sect and its leader Sheikh Hamdullah, refuse to take precautions or respect the quarantine. And then a murder occurs. As the plague continues its rapid spread, the Sultan sends a second doctor to the island, this time a Muslim, and strict quarantine measures are declared. But the incompetence of the island's governor and local administration and the people's refusal to respect the bans doom the quarantine to failure, and the death count continues to rise. Faced with the danger that the plague might spread to the West and to Istanbul, the Sultan bows to international pressure and allows foreign and Ottoman warships to blockade the island. Now the people of Mingheria are on their own, and they must find a way to defeat the plague themselves. Steeped in history and rife with suspense, Nights of Plague is an epic story set more than one hundred years ago, with themes that feel remarkably contemporary.
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
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Release | : 1835 |
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Author | : EduGorilla Prep Experts |
Publisher | : EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9355566077 |
EduGorilla's General/Financial Awareness (Vol 2) Study Notes are the best-selling notes for General/Financial Awareness in the English edition. Their content for banking exams is well-researched and covers all topics related to General/Financial Awareness. The notes are designed to help students prepare thoroughly for their exams, with topic-wise notes that are comprehensive and easy to understand. The notes also include solved multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for self-evaluation, allowing students to gauge their progress and identify areas that require further improvement. These study notes are tailored to the latest syllabus of all banking-related exams, making them a valuable resource for exam preparation.
Author | : John Russell Hurd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 860 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Lorien Foote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Escaped prisoners of war |
ISBN | : 9781469630557 |
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