Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni /ælbɪˈruːni/ (Persian: ابوریحان بیرونی; Arabic: أبو الريحان البيروني; 973 – after 1050), known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian...

Al-Biruni's India (Arabic: تحقيق ما للهند من مقولة مقبولة في العقل أو مرذولة, romanized: Taḥqīq mā li-l-hind min maqūla maqbūla fī l-ʿaql aw mardhūla...

Al-Biruni is an impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the eastern limb. This portion of the surface is sometimes brought into...

Khwarazm, he had met al-Biruni (a famous scientist and astronomer), Abu Nasr Mansur (a renowned mathematician), Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi (a respected...

Biruni, who considered al-Razi his mentor, among the first penned a short biography of al-Razi including a bibliography of his numerous works. Ibn al-Nadim...

observations of nature. Medieval Muslim scientists such as Al-Kindi, Ibn al-Haytham and Al-Biruni developed an inductive scientific method emphasizing empirical...

Sahl al-Qūhī and al-Sijzi who were in Baghdad at the time and others such as Abu Nasr Mansur, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Kushyar Gilani and al-Biruni. In Baghdad...

Al-Biruni was a medieval polymath. Al-Biruni may also refer to: Al-Beroni University in Afghanistan Al-Biruni (crater), a lunar crater 9936 Al-Biruni...

primarily on the earliest known written references of Abhinavagupta and Al-Biruni, academics estimate the date of origin of the Bhagavata Purana to be between...

latter, we have Tārīkh al-Hind by Al-Biruni (c. 1030), Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī by Abu'l-Faḍl Bayhaqi (c. late 11th century), Zayn al-Akhbar by Abu Sa'id Gardezi...

the centre of the universe (referring to the centre of the Earth). Al-Biruni and Al-Khazini studied the theory of the centre of gravity, and generalized...

polymath Al-Biruni wrote that al-Ṣūfī's work on the ecliptic was carried out in Shiraz. Al-Ṣūfī lived at the Buyid court in Isfahan. ʿAbd al-Rahmān al-Ṣūfī...

the medieval Muslim astrologer and astronomer Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, and later by al-Biruni, al-Mas'udi, and some western scholars. This interpretation...

Shahis. He is only known in name from the accounts of the Muslim historian Al-Biruni and reconstructions from Chinese sources, and the identification of his...

correspondence with al-Biruni and for proposing that the Earth rotates around its axis in the 10th century. He dedicated work to 'Adud al-Daula, who was probably...

is both a Sanskrit and Avestan word. The word later changed to Kābul. Al-Biruni a Persian polymath also called it "the River of Ghorwand". The Kabul River...

smallpox and measles, and challenged classical Greek medical theory. Al-Biruni, Avicenna and others described the preparation of hundreds of drugs made...

methods, due to technical limitations, and so al-Biruni accepted the value calculated the previous century by the al-Ma'mun expedition. 1,700 years after Eratosthenes's...

different in a dried flat peach, the shape as described by al-Bīrūnī would not). Though al-Bīrūnī does not discuss a wide range of Chinese pharmacopoeia in...

9936 Al-Biruni, provisional designation 1986 PN4, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 24 kilometers in...

by the polymath al-Biruni. Al-Battānī, whose full name was Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān al-Raqqī al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābiʾ al-Battānī, and whose...

original launch site atop a mountain. Although several sources (e.g. al-Biruni) appear to have considered 'Arash' to be the origin of the name 'Arshak'...

used by the native Iranian Khwarezmian speaker Al-Biruni, our other sources of Khwarezmian include al-Zamakhshari's Arabic–Persian–Khwarezmian dictionary...

This is a summary of the 11th century in science and technology. Al-Biruni is regarded as one of the greatest scholars of 11th century and was well versed...

merchants departed to trade goods. The 11th-century Persian historian Al-Biruni states that Somnath has become so famous because "it was the harbor for...

notable including Al-Khwārizmī, Abū Zayd al-Balkhī (founder of the "Balkhi school"), Al-Masudi, Abu Rayhan Biruni and Muhammad al-Idrisi. Islamic geography...

(d. 1037) Ibn Sina (d. 1037) Ibn al-Haytham (d. 1040) Al-Bīrūnī (d. 1048) Ali ibn Ridwan (d. 1061) Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (d. 1087) Omar Khayyám (d...

Ibn al-Nadim, purportedly by al-Biruni, or were anti-Manichaean polemics, such as the 4th-century Acta Archelai. Among these medieval accounts, Ibn al-Nadim's...

demonstrates little use of them in practice traditionally and currently. Al-Biruni also points out that, in contradiction to the Greeks and Persians, the...

scholars al-Kindi (full name Abu Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, circa 800 CE – 873 CE) and al-Biruni (full name Abu al-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, circa...