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A 15th-Century Islamic Scholar Has Surprisingly Contemporary Advice on Handling Pandemics

Published: April 13, 2023, 7:50 a.m.

Six hundred years ago, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani \u2014an esteemed judge, poet, and scholar in Cairo\u2014 wrote \u201cMerits of the Plague,\u201d a landmark work of history and religious thought that looked at accounts of centuries worth of plague outbreak and their...