The Work On the Prohibition to bury the Living of Ubaidallah ibn Jibril Ibn Bukhtishu' (d. after 1058 CE): Edition, Translation, Study and Glossary

Ubayd Allah Ibn Jibril Ibn Bukhtishu(公元1058年后)的Kitab Tahrim DAFN al-Ahya(关于禁止埋葬生者的书)是阿拉伯文献中独特的医学史文献。生命的参照框架是临床上的暂停生命状态，一种并不罕见的死亡状态。乌贝德·阿拉在这里纯粹从医学的基础上讨论了作为从有到无的过渡的死亡的质量，以及它潜在的背信弃义的性质，正是这种话题的焦点，遮蔽了宗教、神话或仪式的方方面面，这就解释了乌贝德·阿拉·S的写作的巨大意义。我们甚至可以更进一步，坚持认为，在医学的排他性视角下对死亡的短暂特征的这种处理，在前现代欧洲文学中也没有对应的东西，实际上在印度人和中国人丰富的医学文学传统中也没有对应的东西。Kitab Tahrim DAFN al-Ahya保存在一份完整的阿拉伯语手稿中。虽然一个大幅更大，在许多方面非常原创的文学作品，乌贝德真主S的写作是构思作为一个小的，现在丢失的伪伽利安论文Peri tou mèthaptein entos Mis hèmeras关于不要埋葬前一天已经过去，乌贝德真主认为是真实的，其中世纪阿拉伯语翻译的标题Tahrim al-DAFN qabl Arbaa WA-IshenSaa(禁止埋葬24小时前已经过去)的评论，我们拥有几个手稿；后来，在高中世纪，这个阿拉伯语版本本身被翻译成希伯来语下的标题为Sefer Issur ha-qevurah(关于禁止埋葬的书)，后者我们也拥有手稿，该论文，虽然从未翻译成拉丁文，成为在欧洲的学术传统下的标题德禁止Sepultura(关于禁止埋葬)。直到今天，无论是乌贝德真主S极其重要的著作或伪伽利安论文都没有被编辑过，更不用说翻译或评估它们的历史和科学内容了。这一拟议项目的核心目标是：建立一个阿拉伯文《Kitab Tahrim DAFN al-Ahya》的关键版(68对开本，合136页)，连同它的伪银河模板(约7对开本，即14页)；提供经编辑的阿拉伯文的带注释的英译本(S)；在介绍性研究的框架内，对文本进行科学史分类和对其进行语文评价；将所有相关技术术语登记在词汇中。

The Kitab Tahrim dafn al-ahya (Book on the Prohibition to bury the Living) of Ubayd Allah ibn Jibril Ibn Bukhtishu (d. after 1058 CE) is a medico-historical document unique in Arabic literature. The referential frame of Living is the clinical state of suspended animation, a deathlike condition of not infrequent occurrence. Ubayd Allah here discusses the quality of death as a transition from being to non-being, as well as its potentially treacherous nature, on a purely medical basis, and it is precisely this topical focus, blinding out all aspects of religion, mythology or ritual, which accounts for the huge significance of Ubayd Allah s writing. We can even go one step further and maintain that this treatment of the transitory character of death under the exclusive perspective of medicine has no counterpart in premodern European literatures either, nor indeed in the rich medico-literary traditions of the Indians and the Chinese. The Kitab Tahrim dafn al-ahya is preserved in a single, complete Arabic manuscript. Although a substantially larger and in many ways highly original literary production, Ubayd Allah s writing is conceived in the first place as a commentary to the small, now lost pseudo-Galenic treatise Peri tou mè thaptein entos mias hèmeras On not to bury before a Day has passed, which Ubayd Allah considered authentic and of whose medieval Arabic translation under the title Tahrim al-dafn qabl arbaa wa-ishrin saa (Prohibition to bury before 24 Hours have passed) we possess several manuscripts; later, in the high Middle Ages, this Arabic rendition was itself translated into Hebrew under the title Sefer Issur ha-qevurah (Book on the Prohibition of a Burial), of which latter we also possess manuscripts; the treatise, though never translated into Latin, became known in the scholarly tradition of Europe under the title De prohibenda sepultura (On Prohibiting a Burial). To this day, neither Ubayd Allah s extremely important writing nor the pseudo-Galenic treatise have been edited, never mind translated or evaluated for their historical and scientific contents. Core objectives of the proposed project are: the establishment of a critical edition of the Arabic text of the Kitab Tahrim dafn al-ahya (68 folios or 136 pages), together with its pseudo-Galenic template (ca. 7 folios or 14 pages); the provision of an annotated English translation of the edited Arabic text(s); the classification of the textual material in terms of scientific history, and its philological evaluation, within the framework of an introductory study; and the registration of all relevant technical terms in a glossary.