Classification in Epidemics and Diseases among Muslim Historians The letter (Al-Naba’ fi Al-Epope) by Ibn Al-Wardi (d. 749 AH) as a model

Abstract

Epidemics and diseases left their impact on Arab and Islamic works and became part of the biographies of authors, poets and writers because of their wide and repeated spread in the Arab and Islamic region. In particular, to describe it and explain its symptoms, how to prevent it, and take measures to prevent infection with it, since the early Islamic times, and it was noted that there were periods of time that witnessed an abundance of writing in diseases and epidemics. The eighth Hijri and claimed many lives, so the author was one of his victims after he wrote the thesis, the subject of the study, which was divided into paragraphs, each of which specialized in a specific aspect, which is first - the interest of Muslim Arabs in writing about epidemics and diseases and guarding against them second - Ibn al-Wardi as a witness to the general plague in the eighth century Third - the dimension Geographical spread of the disease Fourth, means of dealing with the pandemic in the eighth century Fifth - the social and economic effects of the pandemic on societies The study followed the retrospective historical approach based on the study of the phenomenon and the statement of its causes, analysis and interpretation scientifically in the light of the place and time in which it occurred.