Alberuni's India

It was once in 1017 advert, on the behest of Sultan Muhmud of Persia, Alberuni, aka Al-Biruni, travelled to India to profit concerning the Hindus, and to debate with them questions of faith, technology, and literature, and the very foundation in their civilisation. He remained in India for thirteen years, learning and exploring. Alberuni's scholarly paintings has now not been given the due reputation it merits. now not for almost 800 years may the other author fit Alberuni's profound realizing of virtually all facets of Indian lifestyles. short Deatails of the fantastic lifetime of Alberuni. start: five September 973 loss of life: thirteen December 1048 Ethnicity: Persian major pursuits: Anthropology, astrology, astronomy, chemistry, comparative sociology, geodesy, geology, historical past, arithmetic, medication, philosophy, pharmacology, physics, psychology, technological know-how amazing rules: Father of anthropology, geodesy and Indology. founding father of experimental mechanics and experimental astronomy. Pioneer of experimental psychology. Contributed to many different fields of data. Works: Ta'rikh al-Hind, The Mas'udi Canon, figuring out Astrology, and lots of different books affects: Aristotle, Ptolemy, Aryabhata, Muhammad, Brahmagupta, Rhazes, al-Sijzi, Abu Nasr Mansur, Avicenna inspired: Al-Sijzi, Avicenna, Omar Khayyam, al-Khazini, Zakariya al-Qazwini, Maragha observatory, Islamic technology, Islamic philosophy Biruni used to be a polymath with an curiosity in numerous sensible and scholarly fields that relate to what these days is defined as physics, anthropology, comparative sociology, astronomy, astrology, chemistry, heritage, geography,mathematics, medication, psychology, philosophy, and theology. He was once the 1st Muslim student to review India and the Brahminical tradition,and has been defined because the founding father of Indology, and "the first anthropologist".He was once additionally one of many earliest best exponents of the experimental clinical technique, and used to be chargeable for introducing the experimental technique into mechanics and mineralogy, built comparative sociology and experimentation in psychology,and the 1st to behavior intricate experiments relating to astronomical phenomena. Biruni has for instance been defined as "one of the very maximum scientists of Islam, and, all thought of, one of many maximum of all times.", or as "one of the good clinical minds in all history."The crater Al-Biruni at the Moon is termed after him. Tashkent Technical collage (formerly Tashkent Polytechnic Institute) is usually named after Abu Rayhan al-Biruni and a school based via Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kapisa is called after him.

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