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So true. There's a rather scandalous error in lots of modern scholarship on premodern Arabic & Persian-speaking areas, where "waba/veba" is translated as "cholera." It's historically indefensible. It just means "epidemic", nothing more. Neat study here: www.academia.edu/102631694. #histmed
Jun 25, 2024, 5:41 AM