Full Name: Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni
Arabic: أبو ريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني
Origin: Kath, Khwarezm (modern-day Uzbekistan)
Born: 973 AD.
Dies: 1,050 AD.
Famous for: “Father of Comparative Religion”, “Father of modern geodesy”, Founder of Indology and the first anthropologist
Contribution:
146 books written by al-Bīruni, 95 are devoted to astronomy, mathematics, and related subjects
Articles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Biruni
https://www.biruni.edu.tr/en/news/news/who-was-biruni
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000074875
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-024-1665-7_86
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Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology
- English translation of Kitab al-Tafhim li-Awa’il Sina’at al-Tanjim written by al-Biruni translated by R. Ramsay Wright. Arabic and English side by side.
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al-Qanūn al-Masʿūdī القانون المسعودي
- An early and complete copy of the comprehensive astronomical work, or Canon , by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, ca 973-1048). The al-Qanūn al-M asʿūdī was dedicated to Sultan Mas‘ūd of Ghaznī (reg. 1030-1040), and summarises the astronomy of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي) of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168) and brings it…
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Kitāb istī‘āb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb كتاب استيعاب الوجوه الممكنة في صنعة الأسطرلاب
- One of only three recorded copies of an influential treatise on the construction and use of astrolabes by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, ca 973-1048) containing 122 diagrams, 7 tables and 1 space for a diagram or table left blank and marked بياض صحيح ('correctly blank'; f. 20v).
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Kitab al-Tafhim li-Awa’il Sina’at al-Tanjim كتاب التفهيم لأوائل صناعة التنجيم
- Kitab al-Tafhim li-Awa'il Sina'at al-Tanjim كتاب التفهيم لأوائل صناعة التنجيم Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni أبو ريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني
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