Indian Civilization

Description

A comprehensive overview of Indian civilization from its beginnings to the present day. It is the oldest continuously existing human civilization throughout history, having absorbed all the transformations that human civilizations have undergone. It has been able to transmit its oral traditions through written records since the mid-first millennium BCE, in addition to its traces extending back to the end of prehistory.

This book presents all this rich cultural heritage, with its diverse religious, social, political, economic, literary, artistic, scientific, material, technological, psychological, and ethical dimensions, detailing each aspect of its life with clear terminology.

For the first time in Arabic, this book offers this vast amount of information and high-quality new analyses of one of the oldest civilizations built by humankind, whose influence continues to resonate and offer humanity new paths to progress and a balance between the material and spiritual. The civilization of India flourished in ancient history, with its earliest written records appearing at the end of antiquity and continuing into the medieval period. It embraced the waves of change in modern history and contributed significantly to contemporary civilization after refining its methods. It is a flexible civilization, adaptable and receptive to all exchanges and challenges simultaneously. Despite its ancient and majestic lineage, its green shoots constantly emerge from its trunk and branches, offering us much.

The German linguist and founder of the study of religions, Max Müller, said: “If I were asked: In what land on earth has the human mind engaged in its deepest reflections on the most important questions of life, finding solutions to some of them worthy of the attention of every human being, even those who studied Plato and Kant? I would have to point to India. And if I were to ask myself: From what literature in the world can we—we who have been nourished, almost exclusively, by Greek and Roman ideas and the ideas of one Semitic race, the Jewish race—extract the correction we need to make our inner (spiritual) life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, and indeed, more truly human, not only for this life but for the life of eternal existence? I would again have to point to Indian literature.”