الأوبئة في الجزائر العثمانية : قراءة أنثروبولوجية دينية في محتوى المصادر التاريخية

Abstract EN

This short article deals with epidemics and illnesses in a historical, anthropologic and religious view, because of the different meanings either medicinal, or lexical, or even religious in all the books that gave a great importance to the subject of epidemics especially the plague or what’s known in literature by the plague.

also what Muslims and Europeans historians dealt with in their writings about epidemics, and what was said recently on epidemics field, and plagues with the recent medical discoveries, and scientific progress, and this leads us to talk about the difference between epidemic and plane, in a wide way, and what the specialists said before and now, and also to focus on the epidemics that touched Algeria during the Othman’s period as a sample since in this period, Algeria knew the spread of hungers, and epidemics especially that we all know that all the epidemics weren’t Algerian made but they were taken from outside.

taking also into consideration that the Algerians gave importance to medicine and the ways of curing, and what was written in that period.