Diseases and Epidemics and Their Impact on the Zayyanid Society in Central Morocco during the Seventh Century AH / Thirteenth Century AD

Abstract

This study aims to know the natural crises that the countries of the Middle Maghreb witnessed in the Zianian era and how they affected the economic and demographic aspects, and to know its consequences, in a modest attempt to enrich the historical library with a new study on the impact of diseases and epidemics on the society of the Middle Maghreb, to be added to previous studies in the same field. This research adopted the descriptive historical method that lists the facts and describes the situations and events experienced by societies experience during the various crises, and also used the deductive approach drawing the various crises, also the deductive method was used to draw conclusions. Where the study showed the importance of the history of crises and natural disasters, such as diseases and epidemics due to their direct impact on the population, and also showed the great danger they pose to the lives of people in the Central Maghreb region, especially, over long periods of time it has been exposed several times to the risk of these disasters raiding it, due to the negative consequences of their spread, and the study also reached to a conclusion that the causes that lead to the occurrence of such crises varied between human and natural causes related to climate fluctuations.