Translating Wisdom : Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia / Shankar Nair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nair, Shankar, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hinduism--Relations--Islam.

Hinduism.

Hinduism--Sacred books--Translating--History.

Islam--Relations--Hinduism.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Laghu-Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha and Its Persian Translation

Chapter 2: Madhusūdana Sarasvatī and the Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha

Chapter 3: Muḥibb Allāh Ilāhābādī and an Islamic Framework for Religious Diversity

Chapter 4: Mīr Findiriskī and the Jūg Bāsisht

Chapter 5: A Confluence of Traditions: The Jūg Bāsisht Revisited

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2020)

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

ISBN:

9780520975750

0520975758

OCLC:

1158123733