Translating Wisdom : Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia / Shankar Nair.

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 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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