[INDOLOGY] Alchemy and South Asia

Paolo Eugenio Rosati paoloe.rosati at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 18:36:14 UTC 2020


Dear Dominik,

thanks for pointing that out.

Best,
Paolo

Il giorno mar 13 ott 2020 alle ore 03:27 Dominik Wujastyk <
wujastyk at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Original research is required, but I think it not unlikely that the
> Pramukhas of Balkh (= Barmakids of Baghdad) may have brought Indian some
> alchemical or longevity ideas to Baghdad in the late eighth century.  There
> is existing research showing that they brought Ayurvedic ideas.
>
>    - Shefer-Mossensohn, M. and Hershkovitz, K. A. 2013. Early Muslim
>    Medicine and the Indian Context: A Reinterpretation. Medieval Encounters
>    19(3), pp. 274–99. Available at: https://academia.edu/4049722.
>    - Wujastyk, D. 2016. From Balkh to Baghdad. Indian Science and the
>    Birth of the Islamic Golden Age in the Eighth Century. Indian Journal of
>    the History of Science 51(4), pp. 679–90. Available at:
>    https://www.academia.edu/30576715.
>
> --
> Professor Dominik Wujastyk
> <https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/wujastyk>
> ,
>
> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
> ,
>
> Department of History and Classics
> <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
> ,
> University of Alberta, Canada
> .
>
>
> South Asia at the U of A:
>
> sas.ualberta.ca
>


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