WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar:
“Translation and Interpretation of Ayurvedic theory of tridoṣa in Early-Modern Persian Texts”（October 26）
講演者 / Speaker
SPEZIALE, Fabrizio （Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales）
日 時 / Date & Time
Friday, 26 October 2018, 18:00-19:00
会 場 / Venue
Meeting room #1 on the 5th floor, Building #9, Waseda University 
主 旨 / Outline
This paper examines the way in which Ayurvedic theory of the tridoṣa is translated and interpreted in Persian treatises on Indian medicine such as the Dastūr al-aṭibbā’ of the historian Muḥammad Qāsim Firišta (born ca. 978/1570) and the Takmila-yi hindī of Šāh Ahl Allāh (d. 1190/1776), the brother of the theologian of Delhi, Šāh Walī Allāh. The epistemic approach of Indian Muslim authors, based on the conceptual categories of the Greco-Arabic scientific thought, do not aim to extend the existing Persian technical lexicon. The concept of doṣa is rendered through the Arabic term ḫilṭ (humour) and the three substances of the tridoṣa are reduced to the analogous categories of the Greco-Arabic school. This is only apparently a congruous and compatible translation between these two lexica. The translation of the humoral notions by using homologous terms is a delicate hermeneutical action that leads to redefining the conceptual value of some of the terms and the categories involved in the translation.
対 象 / Prospected Audience
Faculty and staff members of a university, grad students, undergraduates
主 催 / Organizer
Organization for Islamic Area Studies, Waseda University
共 催/ Co-organizer
Waseda Institute of Advanced Studies, Waseda University
申込み / Registration
Free of charge. Please come to the event venue directly.
