Abu rehan al biruni biography of albert

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (973-ca.

1050), a Moslem astronomer, mathematician, geographer, and historian, was the most acute interpreter of India to Islam in the Middle Ages.

Al-Biruni was born near Kath in Khwarizm (now a part of Uzbekistan) on Sept.

4, 973.

Al-Biruni ( ) was a Persian scholar and Polymath from the Khwarezm region.

1) Al-Birouni was an 11th century Persian scholar and polymath known for his extensive works on astronomy, mathematics, geography, and natural sciences.

Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni /ælbɪˈruːni known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age.

Biography of al-Biruni New Delhi, 8.

Abu al-Rehan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni — Persian scholar measured the Earth's circumference for the first time at Pakistan.

His teacher in astronomy and mathematics was the eminent Abu Nasr Mansur, a member of the family then ruling at Kath. Al-Biruni made several observations with a meridian ring at Kath in his youth. In 995 the attack on the ruler of Khwarizm by the ruler of Jurjaniya drove al-Biruni into exile, presumably to Rayy, where he discussed with the astronomer al-Khujandi the latter's observations with a mural sextant.

AlBiruni later wrote a treatise on this instrument and gave a detailed account of the observations in his Tahdid.

In 997 al-Biruni returned to Kath, where he observed a lunar eclipse that Abu al-Wafa observed in Baghdad; on the basis of the time difference they determined the longit