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The Birth of Indology as an Islamic Science
Mario Kozah
其他書名
Al-Bīrūnī’s Treatise on Yoga Psychology
出版BRILL, 2015-10-20
主題Philosophy / ReligiousReligion / Islam / GeneralPhilosophy / EasternReligion / Comparative ReligionReligion / Hinduism / General
ISBN90043055489789004305540
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=v_7dCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In The Birth of Indology as an Islamic Science Mario Kozah closely examines the pioneering contribution by Bīrūnī (d. ca. 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.