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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The Laghu-Yoga-Vsiha and its Persian translation -- Madhusdana Sarasvat and the Yoga-Vsiha -- Muibb Allh Ilhbd and an Islamic framework for religious diversity -- Mr Findirisk and the Jg Bsisht -- A confluence of traditions: the Jg Bsisht revisited -- Conclusion: from history to theory? Possibilities for the academic study of religion. |
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"During the height of Muslim power in South Asia, Muslim nobles of the Mughal Empire (1526-1857) patronized the translation of a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian language, including the Upaniads, the Bhagavad Gt, and numerous other works. In Translating Wisdom, Shankar Nair reconstructs the intellectual processes that underlay these translations, traversing an exceptional linguistic scope including Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian materials. Using the 1597 Persian rendition of the Sanskrit Yoga Vsiha as a case study, Nair traces the intellectual exchanges by which teams of Muslim and Hindu translators, working collaboratively and drawing upon their respective religio-philosophical traditions, crafted a novel lexicon with which to express Hindu philosophical wisdom in an Islamic Persian idiom. How did these translators find a vocabulary through which to convey Hindu, Sanskrit articulations of God, conceptions of salvation and the afterlife, Hindu ritual notions, etc., in Islamic Persian terms? How did these two communities of scholars devise a shared language with which to communicate and to render one another's religious and philosophical views mutually comprehensible? Translating Wisdom illustrates how these early modern Muslim and Hindu scholars found the words and the means to put their traditions into conversation with one another, achieving a nuanced inter-religious and cross-philosophical dialogue significant not only to South Asia's past, but also its present"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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Open Access EbpS |
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Yogavsiha -- Translating -- History.
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Yogavsiha
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Hinduism -- Sacred books -- Translating -- History.
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Islam -- Relations -- Hinduism.
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Hinduism -- Relations -- Islam.
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Mogul Empire -- Intellectual life.
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Hindouisme -- Livres sacrés -- Traduction -- Histoire.
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Empire moghol -- Vie intellectuelle.
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HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
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Hinduism
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Intellectual life
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Interfaith relations
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Islam
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India -- Mogul Empire
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History
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Print version: Nair, Shankar, 1983- Translating wisdom Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520345683 (DLC) 2019036757 |
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0520975758 |
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9780520975750 (electronic bk.) |
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9780520345683 (paperback) |
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AU@ 000066558338 |
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AU@ 000067504687 |
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AU@ 000074081034 |
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