Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia

Shankar Nair

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2020

Translating Wisdom

Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia

Shankar Nair

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520975750

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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.

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Nair Shankar :

Shankar Nair is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Note on Translation and Transliteration Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter 1: The Laghu-Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha and Its Persian Translation Open Access Download PDF	30
Chapter 2: Madhusūdana Sarasvatī and the Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha Open Access Download PDF	56
Chapter 3: Muḥibb Allāh Ilāhābādī and an Islamic Framework for Religious Diversity Open Access Download PDF	85
Chapter 4: Mīr Findiriskī and the Jūg Bāsisht Open Access Download PDF	119
Chapter 5: A Confluence of Traditions: The Jūg Bāsisht Revisited Open Access Download PDF	142
Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	168
Notes Open Access Download PDF	187
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	227
Index Open Access Download PDF	251

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
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- Main content: 276

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Published: April 28, 2020
ISBN: 9780520975750