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Aaron, 169 Abbasids, 240n9 ʿAbd Allāh b. Yāsīn, 240n6 ‘Abd al-Ḥaqq b. ‘Aṭiyya, 240n5 ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Ṣanʿānī, 15, 191n28 Abū ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Mubārak al-Qusanṭīnī. See Abū al-ʿAbbās b. Mubārak Abū al-ʿAbbās b. Mubārak, 147, 232n39 Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Lakhmī al-Shaqūrī. See al-Shaqūrī Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qābisī, 175 Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī, 192n33 Abū Bakr (Caliph), 197n88 Abū Bakr b. al-ʿArabī. See Ibn al-ʿArabī Abū Bakr Ibn ʿĀṣim. See Ibn ʿĀṣim Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Khuzayma. See Ibn Khuzayma Abū Dāwūd, 214n42, 214n51 Abū Hanīfa, 106 Abū Hudhayl, 7 Abū Hurayra, 21–22, 25–26, 192n33, 197n92; memory, 199n118; watering sick animals with, 30–31 Abū ʿImrān al-Fāsī, 127, 175–76, 240n6 Abū Isḥāq b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Qalānisī, 175 Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad al-Mālaqī Ibn Ṣafwān, 228n92 Abū Maymūna Darrās b. Ismāʿīl al-Fāsī, 175 Abū Qāsim al-ʿAbdūsī, 229n96 Abū Salama, 197n89 Abū ʿUbayda, 27, 33, 226n58 Abū Yaḥyā Muḥammad b. ʿĀṣim al-Gharnāṭī, 227n63 Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, 184 Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb al-Manṣūr, 109 al-ʿāda (custom), 180 Aden, 151–52 adoptionism, 47, 205n48 ʿadwā, 199n113. See also contagion Agnolo de Tura, 220n20 Agramont, Jacme d’, xix, 94–95 al-Aḥbār, Kaʿb, 195n69 Aḥmad b. ʿAdnān, 149 Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal. See Ibn Ḥanbal Aḥmad b. Mubārak. See Ibn Mubārak Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh alQalsh ānī, 143 Aḥmad b. Naṣrallāh, 199n113 Aḥmad ibn ʿAjība. See Ibn ʿAjība ʿĀ’isha, 21–22, 118, 192n33, 193nn49–50, 201n128 Alcuin, 47 Alexander the Great, 100 ʿAlī b. Yūsuf, 176 Alfonso El Sabio (Alfonso the Wise), 207nn79– 80, 222n52 Alfonso of Cordoba, xix, 94, 220n13 Alfonso X, xix, 40, 50, 52, 65 Algeria, 151–52 allegorical thinking, 39–41, 43, 56–59 Almería, 68 Almohad Empire, 49, 109, 240n15 Almohads, 177, 179 Almoravids, 176–78, 240n9 Alonso de Chirino, xx, 97, 99–100, 221n29, 221nn37–38 Alphonsine corpus, 50–54, 65 Ambrose, 238n7 Ambrosiaster, xix, 171–72, 174, 238n7 ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ, 112, 120, 131, 226n54, 226n58 ʿAmwās (Emmaus), 120, 226n53 Anas b. Mālik, 217n78 al-Andalus: Ashʿarism in, 175–76, 239–40n2, 240n5; Muslim scholarship in, xi–xii; plague treatises in, 67–90, 215–16n61 angels, 181–82 animal breeders, 220n19 animals: death bird (hāma), 197n85; horses, 21– 23, 192n33, 194nn50–51, 196n81; injunction to avoid sick animals, 25–26; mangy camels , 28–31; omens in flight of birds, 191n25; INDEX 268 Index plague of frogs, 207n83, 210n125; sick camels , 196n77, 197n86; watering sick animals, 30–31 anonymous practitioner of Montpellier, xix, 95, 99–100 Anṣār of Medina, 110–11 Antichrist, 47–49, 206n72, 208n94 anticontagionist position, 5 Apocalypse, 46 Aquinas, Thomas, xix, 8, 223n60 Arianism, x, 50–52, 65, 173 Arians, 44, 50–51, 65, 187n3 Aristotle, 223n60 Arius, 50–51, 206n72 al-Ashʿarī, Abū al-Ḥasan, 6, 241n32, 242n35 al-Ashʿarī, Abū Mūsā, 154 Ashʿarī school, 6–8, 175, 239–40nn1–2, 241n33; Averroes on, 184–85; on causation, 137–38, 179–80, 186; commentaries on Prophetic Tradition, 15, 26; on contagion, 107, 113–15, 128, 143; in Maghrib, 175–86, 239– 40n2; as oppressors of Muslims, 185 ʿAṣṣām, Aḥmad, 86 association (iqtirān), 117 augury, 16–17, 191n20, 193n40; according to commentators, 17–19; historical and Qur’anic background, 20–21; soothsayers (kuhhān), 191n16; soothsaying (kihana), 190n9. See also evil omen(s); omens Augustine, 56, 65, 208n102, 211n137, 239n18 Averroes (Ibn Rushd), 184–86, 242n44; condemnation of, 243n62; on Plato, 243n61 Avicenna. See Ibn Sīnā al-Awzāʿī, 106–7 al-ʿAynī, xviii, 20, 193n49 azymi, 173 Bacon, Roger, 96 bacterial theory, 3–5 al-Baghawī, al-Ḥusayn b. Masʿūd Ibn al-Farā’, 133, 229n95 al-Baghdādī, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, 74 al-Bājī, xvii, 19, 201nn131–32 bakhar (ozaena), 72 al-Banānī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan, xix, 143, 149 baptism, 57–59, 173, 210n120 al-Bāqillānī, Abū Bakr b. al-Ṭayyib, 175...

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