Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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.

In Arabic, English and Hebrew; translated from Arabic.

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