Shankar Nair

Translating Wisdom (eBook, ePUB)

Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520975750
• Artikelnr.: 57805291

Autorenporträt

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.