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Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni / æ l b ɪ ˈ r uː n i / (Persian: ابوریحان بیرونی; Arabic: أبو الريحان البيروني) (973 – after 1050), known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age.
Alberuni, short for, Abu al-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, was a renowned philosopher, mathematician, historian and one of the jewels in the court of sultan of Mahmud of Ghazni.
al-Bīrūnī (born Sept. 4, 973 ce, Khwārezm, Khorāsān [now in Uzbekistan]—died c. 1052, Ghazna [now Ghaznī, Afg.) was a Muslim astronomer, mathematician, ethnographist, anthropologist, historian, and geographer. Al-Bīrūnī lived during a period of unusual political turmoil in the eastern Islamic world.
Al-Biruni is one of the major figures of Islamic mathematics. He contributed to astronomy, mathematics, physics, medicine and history. View seven larger pictures. Biography. Abu Rayhan al-Biruni was born in Khwarazm, a region adjoining the Aral Sea now known as Karakalpakstan. The two major cities in this region were Kath and Jurjaniyya.
al-Bīrūnī, (born September 973, Khwārezm, Khorāsān—died Dec. 13, 1048, Ghazna, Ghaznavid Afg.), Persian scientist and scholar. Sometime after 1017, he went to India, a land of which he wrote an encyclopaedic account.
Nov 27, 2020 · It was a period of intellectual enlightenment in the Muslim world, from Spain to India. Al-Biruni’s life was not without agitation. He supported a dynasty which was overthrown, but managed to...
Such a man was al-Biruni, born a thousand years ago, who ranks among the greatest scholars of the Islamic world: Astronomer, mathematician, physicist, geographer, historian, linguist, ethnologist, pharmacologist as well as poet, novelist and philosopher al-Biruni's contribution to human learning was unique.
May 29, 2018 · Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (973-ca. 1050), a Moslem astronomer, mathematician, geographer, and historian, was the most acute interpreter of India to Islam in the Middle Ages. Al-Biruni was born near Kath in Khwarizm (now a part of Uzbekistan) on Sept. 4, 973.
A l-Biruni, sometimes referred to as Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, conducted a great deal of original mathematical and astronomical work, most notably when he collaborated with Abu al-Wafa (940-998) on determining the longitudinal difference between Baghdad and his city of Kath in what is now Uzbekistan.
Dec 15, 1989 · BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN MOḤAMMAD b. Aḥmad (362/973- after 442/1050), scholar and polymath of the period of the late Samanids and early Ghaznavids and one of the two greatest intellectual figures of his time in the eastern lands of the Muslim world, the other being Ebn Sīnā ( Avicenna ). i. Life.
