{"product_id":"soul-and-body-diseases-remedies-and-healing-in-middle-eastern-religious-cultures-and-traditions-9789004549104","title":"Soul and Body Diseases, Remedies and Healing in Middle Eastern Religious Cultures and Traditions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAiming to develop a less studied literary genre, this book provides a well-rounded picture of spiritual and physical diseases and their remedies as they were ingrained in the imagination and practices of Middle Eastern Abrahamic cultures, with a special emphasis of Christian communities (Greeks\/Byzantines, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Ethiopians). The volume traces traditions dealing with the onset of a disease in the body and soul, the search for remedy, the maintenance of healing, and the engagement of these processes with faith—either through their affirmation in the public sphere or remaining within the personal framework, as in monastic traditions. A recurring presence in religious literature and the history of the intellectual world, the confrontation between disease and healing may well still be current for our modern understanding of the paths to seeking and maintaining the health of one’s body and soul, without excluding the factor of faith as a core principle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Tables  Notes on Contributors    Introduction   Catalin-Stefan Popa    1 The Contemplative as Spiritual Physician: Medical Theory and Terminology in the Writings of Evagrius Ponticus   Luke Dysinger    2 Illness, Sainthood, and Spiritual Healing in Early Antique Monasticism   Daniel Lemeni    3 Illness of Body and Soul in Greek-Speaking Church Fathers   Martin Meiser    4 Survivals of Phoenician and Aramaic Pharmacobotany during Late Antiquity   Daniel Asade    5 Zoroastrian Medical Rhetoric in Late Antique Iran   Mahnaz Moazami    6 Physician, Spiritual Healer, or Medicine Man? Medical Science according to Bar Bahlūl   Stefanie Rudolf    7 Spiritual Therapy of the Heart: Syriac Fathers on a Pure Heart and How to Keep It Free of Disease   Catalin-Stefan Popa    8 Disease and Healing according to the Armenian Christian Tradition   Jesse Siragan Arlen    9 Soul and Body: Diseases, Remedies and Healing in Georgian Hagiography   Gaga Shurgaia    10 Haunted Bodies: Health, Illness and Inner Life in Byzantium   Raffaele Guerra    11 Non-Codex Gəʿəz Manuscripts as Forms of Healing   Hagos Abrha Abay    12 A Sixteenth Century Hebrew Account of the Epidemic in Naples   Nadia Zeldes    13 Medical and Pharmacological Remedies with Qurʾanic Verses in Nineteenth-Century Manuscripts from Timbuktu   Ali Diakite and Paul Naylor    14 ‘Let Us Bear Illness with Dignity and Righteousness’   Physical and Spiritual Affliction in the Understanding of the Elders of Optina   Eugene Lyutko, Gleb Zapalsky and Vyacheslav Yachmenik    Index of Subjects  Index of Names  Index of Places","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210869596503,"sku":"9789004549104","price":159.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/soul-and-body-diseases-remedies-and-healing-in-middle-eastern-religious-cultures-and-traditions-9789004549104","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}