The Indian and Persian background

The phenomenon of the transmission of Indian and Persian ideas into the world of Islam and their influence upon Islamic thought constitutes an immensely complicated problem for the historian. To begin with, an exchange of ideas had existed between India and Persia long before the rise of Islam. 1 Among other things, this process consisted in a doctrinal blending and therefore much modification, even transformation, of the ideas of the one by the local traditions of the other. Then, both India and Persia had come variously under Hellenistic influence. And this meant that many ultimately Greek notions and systems had reached India and Persia not from the Near Eastern centres of Hellenistic learning but indirectly from each other after having undergone local treatments. But at the same time, to make the situation even more intractable, both India and Persia had also received Greek ideas directly, by means of translations of authentic Greek texts. 2 All this gave rise to a highly intricate intellectual complex of what may be called the pre-Islamic Perso-Indian ethos, and it is this complex which was subsequently inherited by Islam

Ancient history · Linguistics · Persian · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy

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