Translating Wisdom
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Translating Wisdom

Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia

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Translating Wisdom

Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian language. Translating Wisdom reconstructs the intellectual processes and exchanges that underlay these translations. Usingas a case study the 1597 Persian rendition of the Yoga-Vasistha—an influential Sanskrit philosophical tale whose popularity stretched across the subcontinent—Shankar Nair illustrates how these early modern Muslim and Hindu scholars drew upon their respective religious, philosophical, and literary traditions to forge a common vocabulary through which to understand one another. These scholars thus achieved, Nair argues, a nuanced cultural exchange and interreligious and cross-philosophical dialogue significant not only to South Asia's pastbut also its present.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780520975750
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Indian & South Asian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Note on Translation and Transliteration
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: The Laghu-Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha and Its Persian Translation
  9. Chapter 2: Madhusūdana Sarasvatī and the Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha
  10. Chapter 3: Muḥibb Allāh Ilāhābādī and an Islamic Framework for Religious Diversity
  11. Chapter 4: Mīr Findiriskī and the Jūg Bāsisht
  12. Chapter 5: A Confluence of Traditions: The Jūg Bāsisht Revisited
  13. Conclusion
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography