The Prince and the Sufi

The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44274-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 62, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism

The Prince and the Sufi is the literary composition of the seventeenth-century Judeo-Persian poet Elisha ben Shmuel. In The Prince and the Sufi: The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies, Dalia Yasharpour provides a thorough analysis of this popular work to show how the Buddha's life story has undergone substantial transformation with the use of Jewish, Judeo-Persian and Persian-Islamic sources. The annotated edition of the text and the corresponding English translation are meticulous and insightful. This scholarly study makes available to readers an important branch in the genealogical tree of the Buddha Biographies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yasharpour, Dalia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Über Autor(innen)

Dalia Yasharpour, Ph.D. (2005), University of California, Los Angeles, is an independent scholar lecturing at universities in Southern California, including UCLA and the American Jewish University. She has edited a number of Persian language textbooks, authored multiple articles related to Judeo-Persian Studies and published The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China (Brill, 2011) with Fook-Kong Wong.