ʻUbaidallah ibn Buhtišuʻ on apparent death : : the Kitab Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyāʼ, Arabic edition and English translation / / by Oliver Kahl ; with a Hebrew supplement by Gerrit Bos.

• Author: Ibn Bakhtīshūʻ, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Jibrāʼīl.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kahl, Oliver.; Bos, Gerrit, 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: Boston ;, Leiden : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English; Arabic; Hebrew
• Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 105.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 pages).

The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyāʾ , the Book on the Prohibition to Bury the Living , written by the Nestorian physician ʿUbaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšūʿ (d. c. 1060 CE), deals with the causes, signs and treatments of apparent death. Based on a short pseudo-Galenic treatise, whose Greek original is lost, ʿUbaidallāh’s Arabic commentary is a comprehensive and in many ways unique piece of scientific writing that moreover promotes a psychological understanding of physical illness. Oliver Kahl’s present book offers a critical Arabic edition with annotated English translation of ʿUbaidallāh’s work on apparent death, framed by a detailed introductory study and extensive glossaries covering all relevant terms; for comparative purposes, the Arabic and Hebrew recensions of the lost Greek prototype are presented in an appendix.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page / Oliver Kahl -- Dedication / Oliver Kahl -- Preface / Oliver Kahl -- Acknowledgements / Oliver Kahl -- Introduction / Oliver Kahl -- Text and Translation / Oliver Kahl -- Note on Text and Translation / Oliver Kahl -- Bibliography / Oliver Kahl -- Indices / Oliver Kahl -- Introduction to the Indices / Oliver Kahl -- Appendix: The Pseudo-Galenic Treatise / Gerrit Bos.