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

• Superior document: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science : Texts and Studies, Volume 97
• VerfasserIn: Kozah, Mario, 1976-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; Volume 97.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Front Matter /; Introduction /; Al-Bīrūnī: Prologues and Method /; Hindu Metaphysics According to the Hind /; Al-Nafs: The Soul in Kitāb Bātanjal /; Kitāb Bātanjal: The Preface and Sections I–III /; Section IV of Kitāb Bātanjal: Liberation and Unification, a Reading /; Al-Nafs: The Soul in the Hind /; Conclusion /; Translation of Section IV of Kitāb Bātanjal /; Glossary of Terms /; Bibliography /; Indexes /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004305548
• ISSN: 0169-8729
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Mario Kozah.

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.