The birth of indology as an Islamic science : Al-Biruni's treatise on yoga psychology / by Mario Kozah.

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Kozah, Mario, 1976-

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TextSeries: Islamic philosophy, theology, and science: text and studies ; v. 97Publisher: Boston : Brill, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789004305540
9004305548

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Birth of indology as an Islamic scienceDDC classification:

181/.452 23

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B132.Y6 K655 2015eb

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Contents:

Al-Biruni: prologues and method -- Hindu metaphysics according to the Hind -- Al-Nafs: the soul in Kitab Batanjal -- Kitab Batanjal: the preface and sections I-III -- Section IV of Kitab Batanjal: liberation and unification, a reading -- Al-Nafs: the soul in the Hind.

Summary: In The Birth of Indology as an Islamic Science Mario Kozah closely examines the pioneering contribution by Bīrūnī (d. circa 1048) to the study of comparative religion in his major work on India. Kozah concludes that a process of Islamisation is employed through a meticulous systematization of Hindu beliefs into one "Indian religion", preceding by almost a millennium the earliest definitions of Hinduism by nineteenth-century European Orientalists. This formulation of Hinduism draws on Bīrūnī's interpretation of Yoga psychology articulated in the Kitāb Bātanjal , his Arabic translation of the Yoga-Sūtra of Patañjali. Bīrūnī's Islamic reading of Hinduism relies on certain common denominators that he identifies as being of fundamental importance. In the case of Hinduism he identifies metempsychosis as its unifying banner.

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In The Birth of Indology as an Islamic Science Mario Kozah closely examines the pioneering contribution by Bīrūnī (d. circa 1048) to the study of comparative religion in his major work on India. Kozah concludes that a process of Islamisation is employed through a meticulous systematization of Hindu beliefs into one "Indian religion", preceding by almost a millennium the earliest definitions of Hinduism by nineteenth-century European Orientalists. This formulation of Hinduism draws on Bīrūnī's interpretation of Yoga psychology articulated in the Kitāb Bātanjal , his Arabic translation of the Yoga-Sūtra of Patañjali. Bīrūnī's Islamic reading of Hinduism relies on certain common denominators that he identifies as being of fundamental importance. In the case of Hinduism he identifies metempsychosis as its unifying banner.

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