ʿubaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīsūʿ On Apparent Death: The Kitāb Taḥrīm Dafn Al-Aḥyāʾ, Arabic Edit

by Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer

The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyāʾ, the Book on the Prohibition to Bury the Living, written by the Nestorian physician ʿUbaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīsūʿ (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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004371281
• ISBN13: 9789004371286
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"