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Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia
Contributor(s): Nair, Shankar (Author)
ISBN: 0520345681     ISBN-13: 9780520345683
Publisher: University of California Press
OUR PRICE:   $34.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia - India & South Asia
- Religion | Ancient
- History | Middle East - General
Dewey: 294.515
LCCN: 2019036757
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.88 lbs) 276 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Cultural Region - Indian
- Cultural Region - Middle East
- Religious Orientation - Hindu
 
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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.