Ebook {Epub PDF} Alberunis India by Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni

 · Abu al-Rayhan Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Bayruni was born in the outer part (bayrun) of Kath, the capital of Khwarazm (`Madinah Khwarazm’) on Thursday, the 3rd of Dhu al-Hijjah, A.H. ( A.D.) and died in Ghazni in A.H. Known by the honorific title of `al-Ustadh‘ (`The Master’) he was an intellectual giant of his times. He remained in pursuit of knowledge for all his life, and even Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Al-Biruni spent time in India researching culture, religion and language from until , resulting in an ethnography, al-Hind, also translated as the Description of India. Most commonly known as a mathematician, astrologer, historian and scientist, Al-Biruni used his interdisciplinary interests from an anthropological perspective before anthropology existed as a discipline. He described the earth, its axis and its movements, and threw much light on the Indian contribution to the general geography of India. The teory of the movement of th earth was apparently borrowed by Al-Biruni from Arya Bhatta, who in the fifth century AD suggested that the earth revolved round the Sund and rotated on its axis.

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-Biruni was born near Kath and the town were he was born is today called Biruni after the great scholar. Al-Biruni was really a great Muslim scholar and as a famed of Central Asia, Pakistan, and India. (Ibrahim, iii). He became the founder of Muslim thinker after him in the several field of. T he great medieval Islamic scientist and astrologer Abu'l-Rayhan Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Al-Biruni was born in A.D. in Kath, then capital of the Principality of Khwarizm, the present day city of Khiva in Uzbekistan. From a young age he undertook serious scientific research and study, publishing a treatise on cartography at the age of

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-Biruni was born near Kath and the town were he was born is today called Biruni after the great scholar. 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. He travelled to the Indian subcontinent and authored a study of Indian culture Kitab-ul-hind or Tahqiq-i-Hind (History of India) after exploring the Hindu faith. Al-Biruni's Classic Method. Al-Biruni devised a more sophisticated and reliable method to achieve this objective. To carry out his method Biruni only needed three things. An astrolabe. A suitable mountain with a flat horizon in front of it so that angle of depression of horizon could be accurately measured. Knowledge of trigonometry. First Step.