Al-Biruni
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title:
Al-Biruni
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Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously "Father of Comparative Religion", "Father of modern geodesy", Founder of Indology and the first anthropologist. Al-Biruni was well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy, and natural sciences, and also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist, and linguist. He studied almost all the sciences of his day and was rewarde
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11th-century Persian scholar and polymath
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Biruni
date created:
2002-11-22T20:17:09Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T10:07:09Z
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