Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia

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Shankar Nair

Translating Wisdom

Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia

Shankar Nair

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University of California Press
28 April 2020

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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.

By: Shankar Nair
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780520345683
ISBN 10: 0520345681
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 28 April 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shankar Nair is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia.

Reviews for Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia

"""Nair contributes to establishing a new model for what consequential scholarship on South Asia looks like. . . . Translating Wisdom will make a substantial contribution to the intellectual jet streams occupied by interested parties worldwide."" * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"