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Al-Biruni

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Also known as Al Biruni, Biruni, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Abu al-Rayhan al-Biruni, Abū al-Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Albirunius, Beruni

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Al-Biruni, whose native name is ابوریحان محمد بن احمد البیرونی, was a male philosopher, chemist, geographer, and polymath. He lived during the Islamic Golden Age and the Shi'a Century. His fields of work included physics, mathematics, astronomy, and natural science. He was a student of Abu Nasr Mansur and held citizenship in the Samanid Empire. His residence included Ray, Ghazni, and Gorgan. He practiced Sunni Islam and spoke Persian, Khwarezmian, Ancient Greek, and Biblical Hebrew.

His notable works include The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries and Al-Biruni's India. He also produced Al-Biruni's Arabic Version of Patanjali's Yogasutra. Described by sources such as the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopædic Dictionary, he was born in Kath and died in Ghazni. He is categorized under Abu Rayhan al-Biruni on Commons.

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Works
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  • Al-Biruni's Arabic Version of Patanjali's Yogasutra

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1946-04-13
1970s1980s2008 universal fire victimchristmas musiccontemporary gospelgospel

Discography

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Total plays
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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,887x

  2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,971x

  3. Tissue-based map of the human proteome

    · 2015 · cited 14,108x

  4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,997x

  5. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

    · 2020 · cited 10,235x

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Quotes

  • “The Hindus believe with regard to God that he is one, eternal, without beginning and end, acting by free-will, almighty, all-wise, living, giving life, ruling, preserving; one who in his sovereignty is unique, beyond all likeness and unlikeness, and that he does not resemble anything nor does anything resemble him.”
  • “They [Hindus] totally differ from us in religion, as we believe in nothing in which they believe, and vice versa.”

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Key facts

Religious biography.religion
Islam
Religious biography.name
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
Religious biography.image
Biruni-russian.jpg
Religious biography.caption
An imaginary rendition of Al Biruni on a 1973 Soviet postage stamp
Religious biography.native_name
ابوریحان محمد بن احمد البیرونی
Religious biography.birth_date
973
Religious biography.birth_place
Kath, Khwarezm (modern-day Uzbekistan)
Religious biography.death_date
(aged 77)
Religious biography.death_place
Ghazni, Ghaznavid Empire (modern-day Afghanistan)
Religious biography.era
Islamic Golden Age
Religious biography.region
Khwarezm, Central AsiaBuyid dynasty (Rey) Ghaznavid dynasty (Ghazni)
Religious biography.main_interests
Geology, physics, anthropology, comparative sociology, astronomy, chemistry, history, geography, mathematics, medicine, psychology, philosophy, theology
Religious biography.notable_works
The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries, Gems, Indica, ''The Mas'udi Canon, Understanding Astrology''
Religious biography.influences
Abū Ḥanīfa Dīnawarī, Al-Sijzi, Abu Nasr Mansur, Al-Battani
Religious biography.influenced
Al-Sijzi, Omar Khayyam, Al-Khazini, Zakariya al-Qazwini

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Encyclopedic overview

22 sections
Contents
  • Name
  • Life
  • Astronomy
  • Refutation of Eternal Universe
  • Physics
  • Geography and geodesy {{anchor|Geography|Geodesy|Geodesy and geography}}
  • Pharmacology and mineralogy
  • History and chronology
  • History of religions
  • Anthropology
  • Indology
  • Religious views
  • Works
  • Selection of extant works
  • Persian work
  • Legacy
  • In popular culture
  • Notes
  • References
  • Sources
  • Further reading
  • External links

Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, known as al-Biruni () was a Khwarazmian Iranic 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; he also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist, and linguist. He studied almost all the sciences of his day and was rewarded abundantly for his tireless research in many fields of knowledge. Royalty and other powerful elements in society funded al-Biruni's research and sought him out with specific projects in mind. Influential in his own right, al-Biruni was himself influenced by the scholars of other nations, such as the Greeks, from whom he took inspiration when he turned to the study of philosophy. A gifted linguist, he was conversant in Khwarezmian, Persian, Arabic, and Sanskrit, and also knew Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac. He spent much of his life in Ghazni, then capital of the Ghaznavids, in modern-day central-eastern Afghanistan. In 1017, he travelled to the Indian subcontinent and wrote a treatise on Indian culture entitled ("The History of India"), after exploring the Hindu faith practiced in India. He was, for his time, an admirably impartial writer on the customs and creeds of various nations, his scholarly objectivity earning him the title ("The Master") in recognition of his remarkable description of early 11th-century India.

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