The 5th Perso-Indica Conference.
Science and Philosophy: Translation, Transmission and Interaction between
Persianate and Hindu Traditions
1st-2nd February 2018
Friedrich-Wilhelm University, Bonn
February 1st
9.00-9.30: Opening session
Science and Philosophy
Chair: Asad Ahmed
9.30-10.15: Noemie Verdon - Al-Bīrūnī’s Kitāb Pātanğal and Kitāb Sānk: Methods and Strategies of Translation
10.15-11.00: Sajjad Rizvi - Empires of the Mind: Metaphysics in the Qasbahs of the late Mughal Period
Coffee break
Chair: Carl Ernst
11.30-12.15: Ali Balaeilangroudi - A Persian adaptation of the Vedāntasara: A Combination of Platonism, Hinduism and Islam
12:15-13.00: Patrick Dsilva - The Philosophical Implications of Classifying `ilm-i dam as “Science”
Lunch break
Astrology and Astronomy
Chair: Mohammad Bagheri
14.30-15.15: Kazuyo Sakaki - Tantric elements in Persian translated works on astrology
15.15-16.00: Johannes Thomann - Transcriptions and loan translations of Sanskrit words in early Arabic texts on astronomy and astrology
Coffee break
Chair: Eva Orthmann
16.30-17.15: S.Rajeswara Sarma - Exploring the Translations of Scientific Texts from Persian to Sanskrit and vice versa
17.15-18.00: Zainab Karimian and Mohammad Bagheri - The Persian Translation of the Bījagaṇita by ‘Aṭā’ Allāh Rushdī
February 2nd
Encyclopedias
Chair: Chander Shekhar
9.30-10.15: Emma Flatt - A Compendium of Effective and Practical Tools: The Nujūm al-Ulūm
10.15-11.00: Jean Arzoumanov - Indic science, art and craft in the Yādgār-i bahādurī, a nineteenth- Century Indo-Persian encyclopedia
Coffee break
The Śalihotra tradition
Chair: Fabrizio Speziale
11.30-12.15: Eva Orthmann - Colour and coat: The prognostic parts of the Śalihotra in Persian guise
12:15-13.00: Chander Shekhar - Variants of Indo-Persian terms in Persian adaptations of Śalihotra
Lunch break
Medicine, Yoga and Alchemy
Chair: Tilmann Trausch
14.30-15.15: Carl Ernst - Medical and Scientific Aspects of Muḥammad Ġawṯ’s interpretation of Yoga
15.15-16.00: Fabrizio Speziale - Muslim Readers of rasaśāstra: Interpretations and Classification of Indian Iatrochemistry in Persianate Culture
Coffee break
Chair: Johannes Thomann
16.30-17.15: Stefan Reichmuth - Ṭibb and Indian Medical Tradition in the Sultanate Period: Ḥakīm Qāsim b. Yaʿqūb and his Kitāb-i Sulaymān-Shāhī (902/1496)
17.15-18.00: General Discussion
Venue: Friedrich-Wilhelm University, Heussallee 18-24, 53113, Bonn
Scientific coordination: Eva Orthmann (Friedrich-Wilhelm University, Bonn) – Fabrizio Speziale (EHESS, Paris).
Contact for information: Ali Balaei Langroudi: s2albala@uni-bonn.de.
Webpage: http://www.perso-indica.net/events-news/31
Fabrizio Speziale
Directeur d’études / Professor
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Center for South Asian Studies
54 Boulevard Raspail
75006, Paris
http://www.perso-indica.net/
https://ehess.academia.edu/FabrizioSpeziale