God and the Black Death, Part 3
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Iben Al Hatib and the Black Death
Stearns argues that iben al hatib was a freethinking exception in a sea of fatalistic, narrow minded moslem jurists and theologians. And at some point a he was murdered in his jail cell after being tried for heresy. Though sterns argues that this was not necessarily as a result of his comments about the plague.
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