This book looks at the interactions between Ayurveda and Persian medical culture in South Asia. It presents, for the first time, a study of the translation movement of Ayurvedic sources into Persian, which took place from the 14th century onwards. The image of Ayurvedic culture emerging from Persian texts provides a new insight into the history of Ayurveda under Muslim political hegemony in South Asia. Persian treatises apply new categories to the analysis of translated materials and transform the way Ayurvedic knowledge is presented. At the same time, Fabrizio Speziale's book deals with the symmetric phenomenon of Persanization of the Hindu physicians who, through the learning of Persian language, appropriated medical knowledge of Muslim culture.
Fabrizio Speziale, Ph.D. (2002), is Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Center for South Asian Studies, Paris. He has published extensively on the history of medicine in the Indo-Persianate world and is the chief editor of Perso-Indica.
"Speziales Studie ist ein wichtiger und anregender Beitrag zur überfälligen Erforschung der indo-persischen Wissenschaftskultur und insbesondere des Verhältnisses zwischen den Medizintraditionen der Muslime und Hindus auf dem Subkontinent. Kompetent und kenntnisreich führt der Verfasser auf einer breiten Materialgrundlage von ca. 130 Quellen...in die Geschichte der Wissensübertragung und der Beziehungen zwischen den beiden Kulturen." Susanne Kurz, in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 114/6 (2019), Islam
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Historians and historians of sciences in South Asia and the Muslim world, scholars working on Persianate and Muslim cultures of South Asia, Ayurvedic medicine, cross-cultural exchanges, history of translation.