Conceptual Adaptation across Traditions: Al-Bīrūnī’s Rendering of Nidrā as Ruʾyā
Introduction
While translating and annotating Bātanjal al-Hindī fī al-Khalāṣ min al-Irtibāk by Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī into Persian (2011), I encountered a number of interpretive challenges, some of which have gradually become…
A Reflection on Al-Bīrūnī’s Approach to Patañjali’s Sūtras
INTRODUCTION
The present study aims to reconstruct the meticulous effort and intellectual precision of Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī in presenting a significant part of Indian mystical literature, which facilitated an encounter between…