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UNINA9911119826903321 |
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Nair Shankar |
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Translating Wisdom : Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia / / Shankar Nair |
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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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Hinduism - Relations - Islam |
Hinduism - Sacred books - Translating - History |
Islam - Relations - Hinduism |
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Laghu-Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha and Its Persian Translation -- Chapter 2: Madhusūdana Sarasvatī and the Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha -- Chapter 3: Muḥibb Allāh Ilāhābādī and an Islamic Framework for Religious Diversity -- Chapter 4: Mīr Findiriskī and the Jūg Bāsisht -- Chapter 5: A Confluence of Traditions: The Jūg Bāsisht Revisited -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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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 |
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