Alberuni's India (Abridged)

by Eduard Sachau, Edward C. Sachau, Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393005682
• ISBN13: 9780393005684
• Release Date: May 1971
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.9"