Black Death - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Black Death - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Borsch, Stuart

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061070
Doc. NO	:	ALei1467
Main Entry	:	Borsch, Stuart
Title & Author	:	Black Death - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Borsch, Stuart
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,728 words)
Abstract	:	Black Death is the term used by modern historians for the mass pandemic of Yersinia pestis that broke out in Europe and the Middle East in the mid-seventh/fourteenth century. Contemporary sources do not use the term “Black Death,” which is an invention of early Modern Europe. Muslims of the seventh/fourteenth century used the terms ṭaʿūn , to refer to plague, and wabāʾ , to refer to outbreaks of epidemic disease in general (see Ibn Ḥajar, 97: “every ṭaʿūn is a wabāʾ , but not every wabāʾ is a ṭaʿūn ”). Yersinia
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1467.pdf