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Translating Wisdom : Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia
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Translating Wisdom : Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia / Shankar Nair.
ISBN
9780520975750
Publication
Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
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©2020
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1 online resource (276 p.)
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In English.
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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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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2020.
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Books / Online
Language
English
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June 17, 2022
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