Noemie Verdon
Professor
Department of Buddhist Studies, Philosophy and Comparative R
Nalanda University
India
Biography
Noemie Verdon completed her Master (2008) and PhD (2015) degrees at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) in the Department of South-Asian Languages and Civilisations. The title of her PhD dissertation is Al-BÄ«rÅ«nÄ«’s KitÄb SÄnk and KitÄb PÄtanÄŸal: a Historical and Textual Study. In her doctorate, she explores the way in which the Perso-Muslim scholar al-BÄ«rÅ«nÄ« accessed two Sanskrit works related to the Indian systems of thought SÄṃkhya and Yoga, and translated them into Arabic. Dr. Verdon participated to many conferences and lectures in Germany, Switzerland, India, Austria and Thailand, while pursuing her research on al-BÄ«rÅ«nÄ«.
Research Interest
Sanskrit texts; SÄṃkhya-Yoga philosophies; early medieval South-Asian history and archaeology; al-BÄ«rÅ«nÄ«; classical Arabic texts on India; transmission of ideas and knowledge between Islam and India in the early medieval period (from 7th to 11th century).
Publications
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“Cartography and cultural encounter: conceptualisation of al-Hind of Arabic and Persian writers from the 9th to the 11th c. A.D (pp. 30-59).†In M. Palat and H. Prabha Ray. Negotiating Cultural Identity: Landscape in Early Medieval South Asian History. Delhi: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Books India Pvt Ltd. (2015).
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With Maas, Philipp André “On the Hermeneutics of Yoga in al-BÄ«rÅ«nī’s KitÄb PÄtanÄŸal.†In Yoga in Transformation [Volume of the International Conference held in Vienna, September 2013]. (Forthcoming 2017).
