Epidemics of Plague in the Eastern Mediterranean and its reflection in Muslim historiography and thought in the early Islamic period

The prevalence of epidemics and how to deal with them is very important in understanding the changes of social history. Islamic societies in the Eastern Mediterranean have a lot in common features geographically, historically and culturally. One of the difficulties of Islamic societies in the Eastern Mediterranean since the beginning of the rise of Islam and during the Muslim conquests and then throughout the Umayyad period was the unexpected outbreak of the plagues and the heavy casualties and the consequences that resulted from them. The results of this study show that the outbreak of the plague known as the Justinian plague in the late antiquity in the two empires of Rome and Iran and its transfer to the Islamic period, faced new problems for Muslims in the conquered lands and had far-reaching consequences for the developments of the first centuries of Islam. In this study by descriptive-analytical method the continuous prevalence of plague in a part of the history and geography of the Islamic world and its reflection in the historiography and intellectual and political issues of Muslims has been investigated.