Born in Kath, Khwarezm – a region that today would be cover parts of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan – Abu Raihan Muhammad al-Biruni was a man of many scientific talents. His extensive ...

Little is known of the early life of the Iranian scholar and polymath Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni; however, as the name suggests he was born in Beruniy, a small city in Uzbekistan in Western Central Asia ...

Born in the 10th century in Iran’s Khorasan, Al-Biruni was also an ethnographer, anthropologist, historian, and geographer. He became the most original polymath the Islamic world had ever known.

Born on September 4, 973 AD, Al-Biruni was also an ethnographer, anthropologist, historian, and geographer. He became the most original polymath the Islamic world had ever known. As the name suggests, ...

The glorious third sultan of the Ghaznavid dynasty Mahmud (r. 998-1030), who had conquered a vast territory from the Oxus (Jayhun/Amu Darya) to the Indus valley, advanced in 1017 on the left side of ...

I never realized quite how idle and inadequate I was until reading S. Frederick Starr’s “The Genius of Their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment.” The 11th-century scholar Ibn Sina—known ...

THE protest of college students and teachers against the authorities’ refusal to pay heed to their demands had not subsided. On Nov 27, 1973 it was reported that most of the teachers of nationalised ...

One thousand years ago, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a Central Asian scholar, conceived the concept of specific gravity, rejected creationism and argued that the Earth revolved around the sun. And now, ...