Biruni
(Al-Bīrūnī, ’Abū Raiḥān)
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(name) scholar (male), born 973, died 1048. |
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A learned polymath, called al-ustād (“the teacher”). Author of the encyclopedic Book of India (Kitāb al-Hind). |
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Introduction to Sufi Doctrine (by Titus Burckhardt) |
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See Alberuni’s India (ed. E.C. Sachau) |
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