The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali

Mario Kozah, David Gordon White, Abu Ray?an al-Biruni, Mario Kozah

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781479813216
• eBook ISBN:
  9781479813209
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

A brilliant cross-cultural interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy
The Yoga Sutrasof Patañjali is the foundational text of yoga philosophy, used by millions of yoga practitioners and students worldwide. Written in a question-and-answer format, The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali deals with the theory and practice of yoga and the psychological question of the liberation of the soul from attachments.
This book is a new rendering into English of the Arabic translation and commentary of this text by the brilliant eleventh-century polymath al-Biruni. Given the many historical variants of the Yoga Sutras, his Kitab Batanjali is important for yoga studies as the earliest translation of the Sanskrit. It is also of unique value as an Arabic text within Islamic studies, given the intellectual and philosophical challenges that faced the medieval Muslim reader when presented with the intricacy of composition, interpretation, and allusion that permeates this translation.
An English-only edition.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Letter from the General Editor
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Notes to the Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Map: The Indian Subcontinent
• Note on the Text
• Notes to the Introduction
• The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
• Appendix of Parallel Citations in the Taḥqīq mā li-l-Hind
• Notes
• Glossary
• Table of Correspondences
• Bibliography
• Further Reading
• Index
• About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
• About the Translator
• The Library of Arabic Literature