{"product_id":"translating-wisdom-shankar-nair-9780520345683","title":"Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003eA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eTranslating Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shankar Nair\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520345681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520345683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Shankar Nair","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44052626145535,"sku":"9780520345683","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e4b31527-37c7-4bf5-b38d-835a2e4cfef7.jpg?v=1685019891","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/translating-wisdom-shankar-nair-9780520345683","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}