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（禁止埋葬活人的书）是阿拉伯文学中独一无二的医学历史文献。生活的参照框架是假死的临床状态，这是一种经常发生的类似死亡的状态。在这里，Ubayd Allah纯粹从医学的角度讨论了死亡作为从存在到非存在的过渡的性质，以及其潜在的危险性质，正是这种主题焦点，掩盖了宗教、神话或仪式的所有方面，这说明了Ubayd Allah的著作的巨大意义。我们甚至可以更进一步，坚持认为，在医学的独家视角下，这种对死亡的短暂性的处理，在前现代的欧洲文学中也没有对应的，在印度和中国丰富的医学文学传统中也是如此。《基塔布·塔利姆·达芬·阿尔-阿赫亚》保存在一份完整的阿拉伯语手稿中。虽然乌巴伊德·安拉的作品规模更大，而且在很多方面都是高度原创的文学作品，但他的作品首先被认为是对现在已经失传的伪盖伦著作《末日来临mè》的评论，该书的内容是《末日来临前不要埋葬》，乌拜德·安拉认为是真实的，其中世纪阿拉伯语翻译标题为Tahrim al-dafn qabl arbaa wa-ishrin saa（禁止在24小时内埋葬），我们拥有几份手稿；后来，在中世纪鼎盛时期，这个阿拉伯语版本本身被翻译成希伯来语，标题为《禁止埋葬之书》（Sefer Issur ha-qevurah），我们还拥有后者的手稿；这篇论文虽然从未被翻译成拉丁文，但在欧洲的学术传统中以《论禁止埋葬》（De prohibenda sepultura）为题而闻名。直到今天，无论是乌巴伊德·安拉的极其重要的著作还是伪盖伦的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。拟议项目的核心目标是：编制《伊斯兰教法》阿拉伯文版的批判版（68对开本或136页）及其伪盖伦模板（约7对开本或14页）；提供经编辑的阿拉伯文文本的带注释的英文译本；从科学史的角度对文本材料进行分类，并在导论研究的框架内对其进行语言学评价；并在词汇表中登记所有相关的专业术语。

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(Book on the Prohibition to bury the Living) of Ubayd Allah ibn Jibril Ibn Bukhtishu (d. after 1058 CE) is a medico-historical document unique in Arabic literature.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.