"... discusses interactions between Ayurveda and Persian medical culture in South Asia. It presents, for the first time, a study of the Persian translation movement of Ayurvedic sources that took place from the fourteenth century. The image of Ayurvedic culture that emerges from the Persian treatises provides new insights into the history of Ayurveda in the era of Muslim political hegemony. Persian treatises apply new categories to the analysis of translated materials and transform the presentation of Ayurvedic knowledge. At the same time, Fabrizio Speziale's book deals with the symmetrical phenomenon of Persianisation of the intellectual universe of Hindu doctors who, through the learning of Persian..." (publisher).