Fabrizio Speziale
Biographic Data
| ID | 708553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fabrizio Speziale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fabrizio |
| FAMILY NAME | Speziale |
| SIGNATURE | SPEZIALE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for South Asian Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6871-9770 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Noah’s grandsons and the elephant
This article enquires into pseudonymous Persian texts in South Asia as devices to domesticate non-Muslim technical knowledge and to legitimate the status of a Muslim professional group that emerged from interaction with the Indian natural and social environment. In the Risāla-yi kursī-nāma-yi mahāwat-garī —an illustrated text on the elephant and the elephant keeper, claimed to be authored by one of Noah’s grandsons—the aforementioned profession (…
Reshaping Medical Learning
The Ma‘dan al-šifā’-i Sikandar-šāhī is an extensive Persian handbook of Ayurvedic medicine made for Miyān Bhuwa ibn Ḫawāṣṣ Ḫān, a vizir of Sultan Sikandar Lodī (r. 1489-1517) to whom the book was dedicated. Miyān Bhuwa allocated considerable resources to achieving this translation project and hired scholars to translate the many parts of Ayurvedic books used to compile the Persian text. This article explores the reasons behind the production of t…
Hippology Between Indic and Persianate Textual Traditions
This article looks at the translation of Indian sources on horses in the Persianate culture of South Asia. Horses were an essential tool of Muslim armies and their military hegemony in South Asia. In the regional sultanates, local rulers competed in making Indian sources on hippology available in the Persian language. This contribution focuses on the Tarjoma-ye Sālutar (The Translation of Śalihotra , 1407–8), a translation of an Indian text on hi…
Beyond the "wonders of India" ('ajā'ib al-hind)
This article looks at the translation and circulation of yogis' learning in Persian medical and alchemical texts produced in South Asia. I suggest that looking at the non-religious environment allows for a more accurate understanding of the overall circulation of yogic knowledge and techniques in the Muslim society of South Asia. Furthermore, I suggest that the assimilation of yogis' learning in Persian sources concerned not only Yoga but also ot…
Persian Treatises on Āyurveda
This article examines the translation of foreign materials into post-Abbasid Muslim medical culture by looking at the production of Persian works dealing with Ayurvedic medicine. From the 14th century onwards, the composition of Persian texts on Āyurveda emerged in South Asia as a new genre of writing, which was actually a composite genre including various kinds of texts. The Muslim physicians incorporate the other’s learning not by rejecting the…
Muslim Cultures in the Indo-Iranian World During the Early-Modern and Modern Periods
Scientific Knowledge and Religious Milieu in Qajar Iran
Historians of sciences in the Muslim world have often overlooked the role of religious circles as places for the production and circulation of scientific materials. By focusing on the case of Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani (d. 1288/1871), this article explores how scientific learning is dealt with in the work of a leading master of the Shaykhi school. This article looks in particular at the Daqa’iq al-‘ilaj, an extensive medical treatise written in …
Rasāyana and Rasaśāstra in the Persian Medical Culture of South Asia
In this article, I suggest that looking at the entangled issues of the creation of a new field of knowledge and the interaction with Others’ learning allows for a more accurate understanding of how Persian medical studies have developed and adapted to different natural and cultural settings during late medieval and early modern periods. This article studies the translation and reception of materials drawn from alchemy (rasaśāstra) and rejuvenatin…
Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud
Cet ouvrage traite des interactions entre l'Ayurveda et la culture médicale persane en Asie du sud. Il présente, pour la première fois, une étude du mouvement de traduction en persan des sources ayurvédiques qui a eu lieu à partir du XIVe siècle. L'image de la culture ayurvédique qui émerge à partir des traités persans offre un nouvel éclairage sur l'histoire de l'Ayurveda à l'époque de l'hégémonie politique musulmane. Les traités persans appliqu…
The Persian translation of the tridoṣa
This article 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 s…
A 14th Century Revision of the Avicennian and Ayurvedic Humoral Pathology
The fundamental concepts of the theory of humours of Avicennian thought are often seen as static and a-historical entities whose identity and function were defined once and for all in the classical sources. This article questions this view by looking at the Šifāʾ al-maraż, a Persian medical handbook written in India by Šihāb al-Dīn Nāgawrī in 790/1388. In the first chapter, Nāgawrī proposes a shift of perspective in the classical categorisation o…
Boivin Michel, Le soufisme antinomien dans le sous-continent indien. La’l Shahbâz Qalandar et son héritage, XIIIe- XXe siècles, Paris, Cerf, 2012, 240 p
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Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s
Reports
Il simbolismo mistico del volto umano nel trattato (in urdu) Sūrat-i ma'lūma-yi ṣuwari 'ilm di Karīm Allāh 'Āshiq
This article describes the mystical interpretation of the traits of the human face given in the Urdu treatise Ṣūrat-i ma'lūma-yi ṣuwar-i 'ilm composed by Karīm Allāh 'Āshiq, a Sufi of the Chishtiyya order who was active in Hyderabad during the second half of the 19th century. The treatise is illustrated with large calligraphic drawings showing a human face composed with the names of the People of the Mantle (Ahl al-Kisa'), i.e. the prophet Muḥamm…
Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud
Cet ouvrage traite des interactions entre l'Ayurveda et la culture médicale persane en Asie du sud. Il présente, pour la première fois, une étude du mouvement de traduction en persan des sources ayurvédiques qui a eu lieu à partir du XIVe siècle. L'image de la culture ayurvédique qui émerge à partir des traités persans offre un nouvel éclairage sur l'histoire de l'Ayurveda à l'époque de l'hégémonie politique musulmane. Les traités persans appliqu…
Beyond the "wonders of India" ('ajā'ib al-hind)
This article looks at the translation and circulation of yogis' learning in Persian medical and alchemical texts produced in South Asia. I suggest that looking at the non-religious environment allows for a more accurate understanding of the overall circulation of yogic knowledge and techniques in the Muslim society of South Asia. Furthermore, I suggest that the assimilation of yogis' learning in Persian sources concerned not only Yoga but also ot…
Rasāyana and Rasaśāstra in the Persian Medical Culture of South Asia
In this article, I suggest that looking at the entangled issues of the creation of a new field of knowledge and the interaction with Others’ learning allows for a more accurate understanding of how Persian medical studies have developed and adapted to different natural and cultural settings during late medieval and early modern periods. This article studies the translation and reception of materials drawn from alchemy (rasaśāstra) and rejuvenatin…
Reports
Il simbolismo mistico del volto umano nel trattato (in urdu) Sūrat-i ma'lūma-yi ṣuwari 'ilm di Karīm Allāh 'Āshiq
This article describes the mystical interpretation of the traits of the human face given in the Urdu treatise Ṣūrat-i ma'lūma-yi ṣuwar-i 'ilm composed by Karīm Allāh 'Āshiq, a Sufi of the Chishtiyya order who was active in Hyderabad during the second half of the 19th century. The treatise is illustrated with large calligraphic drawings showing a human face composed with the names of the People of the Mantle (Ahl al-Kisa'), i.e. the prophet Muḥamm…
Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s
Boivin Michel, Le soufisme antinomien dans le sous-continent indien. La’l Shahbâz Qalandar et son héritage, XIIIe- XXe siècles, Paris, Cerf, 2012, 240 p
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
The Persian translation of the tridoṣa
This article 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 s…
A 14th Century Revision of the Avicennian and Ayurvedic Humoral Pathology
The fundamental concepts of the theory of humours of Avicennian thought are often seen as static and a-historical entities whose identity and function were defined once and for all in the classical sources. This article questions this view by looking at the Šifāʾ al-maraż, a Persian medical handbook written in India by Šihāb al-Dīn Nāgawrī in 790/1388. In the first chapter, Nāgawrī proposes a shift of perspective in the classical categorisation o…
Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud
Cet ouvrage traite des interactions entre l'Ayurveda et la culture médicale persane en Asie du sud. Il présente, pour la première fois, une étude du mouvement de traduction en persan des sources ayurvédiques qui a eu lieu à partir du XIVe siècle. L'image de la culture ayurvédique qui émerge à partir des traités persans offre un nouvel éclairage sur l'histoire de l'Ayurveda à l'époque de l'hégémonie politique musulmane. Les traités persans appliqu…
Rasāyana and Rasaśāstra in the Persian Medical Culture of South Asia
In this article, I suggest that looking at the entangled issues of the creation of a new field of knowledge and the interaction with Others’ learning allows for a more accurate understanding of how Persian medical studies have developed and adapted to different natural and cultural settings during late medieval and early modern periods. This article studies the translation and reception of materials drawn from alchemy (rasaśāstra) and rejuvenatin…
Muslim Cultures in the Indo-Iranian World During the Early-Modern and Modern Periods
Scientific Knowledge and Religious Milieu in Qajar Iran
Historians of sciences in the Muslim world have often overlooked the role of religious circles as places for the production and circulation of scientific materials. By focusing on the case of Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani (d. 1288/1871), this article explores how scientific learning is dealt with in the work of a leading master of the Shaykhi school. This article looks in particular at the Daqa’iq al-‘ilaj, an extensive medical treatise written in …
Persian Treatises on Āyurveda
This article examines the translation of foreign materials into post-Abbasid Muslim medical culture by looking at the production of Persian works dealing with Ayurvedic medicine. From the 14th century onwards, the composition of Persian texts on Āyurveda emerged in South Asia as a new genre of writing, which was actually a composite genre including various kinds of texts. The Muslim physicians incorporate the other’s learning not by rejecting the…
Beyond the "wonders of India" ('ajā'ib al-hind)
This article looks at the translation and circulation of yogis' learning in Persian medical and alchemical texts produced in South Asia. I suggest that looking at the non-religious environment allows for a more accurate understanding of the overall circulation of yogic knowledge and techniques in the Muslim society of South Asia. Furthermore, I suggest that the assimilation of yogis' learning in Persian sources concerned not only Yoga but also ot…
Reshaping Medical Learning
The Ma‘dan al-šifā’-i Sikandar-šāhī is an extensive Persian handbook of Ayurvedic medicine made for Miyān Bhuwa ibn Ḫawāṣṣ Ḫān, a vizir of Sultan Sikandar Lodī (r. 1489-1517) to whom the book was dedicated. Miyān Bhuwa allocated considerable resources to achieving this translation project and hired scholars to translate the many parts of Ayurvedic books used to compile the Persian text. This article explores the reasons behind the production of t…
Hippology Between Indic and Persianate Textual Traditions
This article looks at the translation of Indian sources on horses in the Persianate culture of South Asia. Horses were an essential tool of Muslim armies and their military hegemony in South Asia. In the regional sultanates, local rulers competed in making Indian sources on hippology available in the Persian language. This contribution focuses on the Tarjoma-ye Sālutar (The Translation of Śalihotra , 1407–8), a translation of an Indian text on hi…
Noah’s grandsons and the elephant
This article enquires into pseudonymous Persian texts in South Asia as devices to domesticate non-Muslim technical knowledge and to legitimate the status of a Muslim professional group that emerged from interaction with the Indian natural and social environment. In the Risāla-yi kursī-nāma-yi mahāwat-garī —an illustrated text on the elephant and the elephant keeper, claimed to be authored by one of Noah’s grandsons—the aforementioned profession (…
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