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The birth of indology as an Islamic science : Al-Biruni's treatise on yoga psychology / by Mario Kozah.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kozah, Mario, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; Volume 97.
- Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science : Texts and Studies, 0169-8729 ; Volume 97
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yoga--History.
- Yoga.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- India--Civilization--Study and teaching--Islamic Empire.
- India.
- Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 973?-1048. Kitāb Bātanjal al-Hindī fī al-khalāṣ min al-irtibāk.
- Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad.
- Patañjali. Yogasūtra.
- Patañjali.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Birth of Indology as an Islamic Science Mario Kozah closely examines the pioneering contribution by Bīrūnī (d. circa 1048) to the study of comparative religion in his major work on India. Kozah concludes that a process of Islamisation is employed through a meticulous systematization of Hindu beliefs into one “Indian religion”, preceding by almost a millennium the earliest definitions of Hinduism by nineteenth-century European Orientalists. This formulation of Hinduism draws on Bīrūnī’s interpretation of Yoga psychology articulated in the Kitāb Bātanjal , his Arabic translation of the Yoga-Sūtra of Patañjali. Bīrūnī’s Islamic reading of Hinduism relies on certain common denominators that he identifies as being of fundamental importance. In the case of Hinduism he identifies metempsychosis as its unifying banner.
- Contents:
- Front Matter / Kozah Kozah
- Introduction / Kozah Kozah
- Al-Bīrūnī: Prologues and Method / Kozah Kozah
- Hindu Metaphysics According to the Hind / Kozah Kozah
- Al-Nafs: The Soul in Kitāb Bātanjal / Kozah Kozah
- Kitāb Bātanjal: The Preface and Sections I–III / Kozah Kozah
- Section IV of Kitāb Bātanjal: Liberation and Unification, a Reading / Kozah Kozah
- Al-Nafs: The Soul in the Hind / Kozah Kozah
- Conclusion / Kozah Kozah
- Translation of Section IV of Kitāb Bātanjal / Kozah Kozah
- Glossary of Terms / Kozah Kozah
- Bibliography / Kozah Kozah
- Indexes / Kozah Kozah.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-30554-8
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004305540 DOI
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