Abū al-Rayhān Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Bīrūnī was a Persian Muslim scholar who produced learned work on a wide range of topics. He was born in 973 GC in present-day Uzbekistan. He spent most of his life in Ghazni in present-day Afghanistan and produced a leading study of India.
Disengagement from India in the ancient Islamic world more plausibly resulted from reconfiguration of scholarly interests than deep cultural differences. … Read the post views of India from the ancient Islamic world
Al-Bīrūnī is currently rated as brilliant. Earlier evaluations of al-Bīrūnī’s Book of Pharmacy were more varied and more interesting. … Read the post al-Bīrūnī's Book of Pharmacy: two perspectives
Al-Biruni respected Greek medical authority, even when his own reasoning uncovered weakness in Greek pharmacological substitutes. … Read the post al-Biruni on pharmacological substitutes