RT Book
T1 Translating wisdom: Hindu-Muslim intellectual interactions in early modern South Asia
A1 Nair, Shankar 1983-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of Californiarnia Press
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1676436952
AB "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 Upaniṣads, the Bhagavad Gītā, 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 Vāsiṣṭha 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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BL1111.5
SN 9780520345683
K1 Yogavāsiṣṭha : Translating : History
K1 Hinduism : Sacred books : Translating : History
K1 Islam : Relations : Hinduism
K1 Hinduism : Relations : Islam
K1 Mogul Empire : Intellectual life