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Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia

Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia

Nair, Shankar

Paperback

Religion General General Middle Eastern HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0520345681
ISBN13: 9780520345683
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Apr 28 2020
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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. Using as 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 past but also its present.

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