Historians have traced myths about the Black Death’s rapid journey across Asia to one 14th-century poem by Ibn al-Wardi. His ...

A medieval Arabic poem written in 1348 helped construct one of the longest-standing misconceptions in plague history, shaping false views of its spread across Asia.

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The revelation centers on a text called a "maqāma" - an Arabic literary genre featuring traveling tricksters - written by the poet and historian Ibn al-Wardi in 1348-49 in Aleppo, according to the new ...

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