Claiming noble parentage he approached high-caste people, and eagerly engaged in dialogue with Hindu scholars about the truths of Christianity.

Hindu scholars were invited to the conferences on sciences and mathematics held in Baghdad.

Barbak Shah was a patron of both Muslim and Hindu scholars.

The work was controversial in India and helped launch a counter-apologetic movement among Hindu scholars.

According to the Sahityaratnakara, Achuthappa retired to Srirangam upon abdication spending the rest of his life discoursing with Hindu scholars.

Some Hindu scholars draw metaphorical parallels between modern cosmology and the Hindu theory of 'Shrishti'.

Some Hindu scholars have also accepted Buddhism as a fulfillment of Sanatana Dharma philosophy:

Al-Biruni collected books and studied with Hindu scholars to become fluent in Sanskrit.

He adds that her efforts to remove him from the post made him recall "what a Hindu scholar once said to me: There is no difference between diplomacy and deception."