al'Asqalani, Ibn Hajar
Merits of the Plague
- ISBN 13:
- 9780143136613
- author:
- al'Asqalani, Ibn Hajar
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 336
- Dimensions:
- 20 x 13 x 1.6 centimetres (0.37
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Death & Dying,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
A Penguin Classic, now in English for the first time, this landmark work of history and religious thought reflects on plagues from the Prophet Muhammad's era to the Black Death. The author, who survived the bubonic plague that took three of his children's lives, weaves together accounts of evil jinn, medical manuals, death-count registers, poetry, and personal anecdotes.
Through his experiences, he explores the origins of plagues and what it means that such catastrophes could have been willed by God. He also chronicles the fear, isolation, scapegoating, economic tumult, political failures, and crises of faith that accompanied these events. In considering the meaning of suffering and mass death, he offers a message of radical hope.
This profound work reminds us that with tragedy comes one of the noblest expressions of our humanity: compassion, patience, and care for those around us.
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