TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nair,Shankar
TI  - Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia 
SN  - 9780520975750
AV  - BL1111.5 .N35 2020
U1  - 294.5/1570954 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Berkeley, CA : 
PB  - University of California Press, 
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - Relations
KW  - Islam
KW  - Sacred books
KW  - Translating
KW  - History
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ancient india
KW  - early modern india
KW  - hindu sanskrit texts
KW  - hinduism
KW  - history
KW  - indian history
KW  - intellectual history
KW  - islam
KW  - islamic intellectuals
KW  - jug basisht
KW  - laghu yoga vasistha
KW  - metaphysics
KW  - mughal south asia
KW  - mughal
KW  - nonfiction
KW  - persian
KW  - religion
KW  - religious diversity
KW  - religious history
KW  - religious studies
KW  - sanskrit
KW  - south asia
KW  - spirituality
KW  - sufi
KW  - translation movement
KW  - translations
KW  - yoga vasistha
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520975750
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520975750
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780520975750/original
ER  -