Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia
By Shankar Nair
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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 YogaVasistha—an influential Sanskrit philosophical tale whos...
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 YogaVasistha—an influential Sanskrit philosophical tale whos...






















