Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean

Chronological List of Relevant Muslim and Christian Scholars Who Wrote on Contagion in the Premodern Period

䡲 䡲 䡲 Ibn Sahl b. Rabbān al-Ṭabarī (d. after 240/855), Christian doctor who converted to Islam; lived in Sāmarrā’. Ibn Qutayba (d. 276 / 889), theologian, traditionist, and jurist; lived much of his life in Baghdad. Thābit b. Qurra (d. 288/901), doctor, mathematician, and astronomer from Ḥarrān; flourished and died in Baghdad. Muḥammad b. Zakariyyā al-Rāzī (d. 311/923), doctor and student of the natural sciences in general; born and died in Rayy, spent many years in Baghdad. Al-Khaṭṭābī (d. 338/998), traditionist, hadith commentator, and poet from Bust (in southern Afghanistan). Ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037), philosopher and doctor from Bukhara; died in Hamadan. Ibn Baṭṭāl (d. 449/1057), traditionist and hadith commentator from Cordoba. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr (d. 463/1070), traditionist and jurist from Cordoba. Al-Bājī (d. 474/1081), theologian and jurist from Badajoz; died in Almería. Ibn Rushd al-Jadd (d. 520/1126), jurist and judge from Cordoba; grandfather of the philosopher. Al-Māzarī (d. 536/1141), jurist and hadith commentator from al-Mahdiyya in Ifrīqiya. Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 543/1148), traditionist and jurist from Seville; buried in Fez. ʿIyāḍ b. Mūsā (d. 544/1149), jurist from Ceuta; died in Marrakesh. Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ (d. 643/1245), traditionist and jurist from Shahrazūr (on the border of Iraq and Iran); died in Damascus. Abū ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿUmar al-Qurṭūbī (d. 656/1258), jurist, traditionist, and hadith commentator from Cordoba; died in Alexandria. Abū ʿAbdāllah Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Qurṭūbī (d. 671/1273), traditionist and Qur’anic exegete from Cordoba; died in Upper Egypt. Al-Nawawī (d. 676/1277), jurist, traditionist, and hadith commentator from Nawā, near Damascus. Ibn Abī Jamra al-Andalusī (d. 699/1300), traditionist and ascetic; place of birth and death unknown. ʿUmar al-Sakūnī al-Ishbīlī (d. 717/1317), theologian and jurist; lived and died in Tunis. Chronological List of Relevant Muslim and Christian Scholars Who Wrote on Contagion in the Premodern Period xviii Muslim and Christian Scholars Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī (d. 748/1348), traditionist and jurist; lived and died in Damascus. Ibn al-Wardī (d. 749/1349), jurist and poet from Maʿarrat al-Nuʿman; died in Aleppo. Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350), theologian and jurist; lived and died in Damascus. Ibn Mufliḥ al-Maqdisī (d. 763/1362), jurist and legal theorist; lived and died in Damascus. Ibn Khātima (d. 770/1369), jurist and physician from Almería. Ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 776/1374), jurist, physician, and Sufi; flourished in Granada and died in Fez. Ibn Abī Ḥajalah (d. 776/1375), poet, prose writer, and Sufi from Tilimsān; died near Cairo. Ibn Lubb (d. 782/1381), jurist and judge; lived and taught in Granada. Al-Manbijī (d. 785/1383), jurist and traditionist from Syria. Al-Kirmānī (d. 786/1384), jurist, theologian, and hadith commentator; died on pilgrimage and was buried in Baghdad. Al-Shāṭibī (d. 790/1388), jurist and legal theorist; was born and died in Granada. Al-Ubbī (d. 827/1425), traditionist, jurist, and hadith commentator; lived in Algeria . Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (d. 852/1448), traditionist, jurist, and judge; born and died in Cairo. Al-ʿAynī (d. 855/1451), jurist, hadith commentator, and judge from ʿAynṭāb in Syria; flourished and died in Cairo. Al-Raṣṣāʿ (d. 894/1489), jurist, doctor, and judge from Tlemcen; died in Tunis. Al-Sanūsī (d. 895/1490), theologian, Sufi, and doctor; was born and died in Tlemcen. Al-Mawwāq (d. 897/1492), jurist and judge; died in Granada. Al-Qasṭallānī (d. 923/1517), traditionist, hadith commentator, and theologian; was born and died in Cairo. Al-Yūsī (d. 1102/1691), jurist, Sufi, and theologian from near Sefrou; died in Fez. Al-Zurqānī (d. 1122/1710), jurist and traditionist; was born and died in Cairo. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Ḥājj (d. 1128/1715), jurist and traditionist; was born and died in Fez. Aḥmad b. Mubārak al-Sijilmāsī al-Lamṭī (d. 1156/1743), Sufi and jurist; lived in Fez. Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Shabbī al-Ḥāmidī al-Sūsī (d. 1163/1749), doctor. Muslim and Christian Scholars xix Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Banānī (d. 1194/1780), jurist...