Translating Wisdom

Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia

von Shankar Nair

278 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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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.

• Reihe: University of California Press
• ISBN: 9780520345683
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.04.2020
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: UCAL POD