Description
In 1017 A.D., Sultan Mahmud, ruler of a great empire in what is now Afghanistan and Iran, brought to his court at Ghazna many of the most brilliant scholars of the Islamic world. Among them was Alberuni (or Al Biruni), who was renowned as a mathematician, astronomer, and political philosopher.
Alberuni's aim was to acquire an exact understanding of the Hindus' knowledge of the natural world, to make it possible for Muslims to converse with the Hindus, and to discuss with them questions of religion, science, or literature, on the very basis of their own civilization. For thirteen years he traveled in North India, observing, questioning, and studying. The result was an account of Indian culture that is unique in its sympathetic understanding, shrewdness of observation, and probing analysis.
Author: Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Biruni, Al-Biruni
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/01/1993
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780393005684
ISBN10: 0393005682
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | General
- Travel | Asia | India & South Asia