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100 1  $a Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, $d 1372-1449, $e author.
245 10 $a Merits of the plague / $c Ibn Hajar al-ʻAsqalānī ; edited, translated, and with an introduction and notes by Joel Blecher and Mairaj Syed.
264  1 $a [New York, New York] : $b Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, $c [2023]
300    $a liv, 268 pages : $b map ; $c 20 cm.
490 1  $a Penguin classics
500    $a Place of publication from the publisher's website.
500    $a Translation of: Badhl al-māʻūn fī faḍl al-ṭāʻūn; "In general, we relied on Aḥmad ʻIṣām ʻAbd 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.
504    $a Includes bibliographical references and index.
520    $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"-- $c Provided by publisher.
650  0 $a Plague $x Islam. $x Islam.
650  0 $a Plague $x History $v Early works to 1800.
650 12 $a Plague $x history.
650 12 $a Pandemics $x history.
650 22 $a History, Medieval.
650 22 $a Islam.
650  7 $a MEDICAL / Internal Medicine. $2 bisacsh
650  7 $a Plague. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01065045
650  7 $a Plague $x Islam. $x Islam. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02017366
655  7 $a Early works. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411636
655  7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628
700 1  $a Blecher, Joel, $d 1982- $e translator. $e translator.
700 1  $a Syed, Mairaj U., $e translator. $e translator.
765 08 $i Translation of: $a Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1372-1449. $t Badhl al-māʻūn fī faḍl al-ṭāʻūn.
776 08 $i Online version: $a Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1372-1449 $t Merits of the plague $d [New York, NY] : Penguin Books, [2023] $z 9780525508113 $w (DLC)  2022037455
830  0 $a Penguin classics.
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