A brilliant crosscultural Arabic interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophyThe Yoga Sutras of Patajali is the foundational text of yoga philosophy to this day and is still used by millions of yoga practitioners and students worldwide. Written in a questionandanswer format The Yoga Sutras of Patajali 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 edition and translation into English of the Arabic translation and commentary on this text by the brilliant eleventhcentury polymath alBiruni. Given the many historical variants of the Yoga Sutras his Kitab Batanjali is important for yoga studies as the earliest translation of the Sanskrit text.