Jan 14, 2025 · Rulers ranging from Sayf al-Dawla, the Hamdanid ruler who hosted Al-Farabi at Aleppo to Mahmud of Ghazni who did likewise for Al-Biruni at Ghazni in the 11th century, saw the service the world's leading luminaries of thought could provide to the intellectual heft of a society and would often heed no rebuke in attaining the solicited services.

Sep 21, 2018 · Perhaps I am making too many threads on Islamic scholars but....then again, perhaps Persia's most notable scientist deserves a thread.... Al-biruni is more or less the greatest scientist to come out of Persia. Did he have any groundbreaking discoveries???

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Sep 13, 2014 · According to Al-Hind: The Slavic Kings and the Islamic conquest, 11th-13th centuries, Al-Biruni says the Kabul Shahis were of Tibetan origin and practiced Turkic culture. This is most likely where they get their "Turkshahi" nickname from.

Jan 20, 2022 · tury A.D.) and Al-Biruni (11th century A.D.), in his-torical times the river ran westward across southern Turkmenistan from Kerki in the southeastern corner of the country to Mary, and evaporated in the Kar-akum Desert "( the continuation to the Caspian Sea ; "Flow into the Caspian Sea resumed at the time of the Mongol conquest of Gorganj (later

Aug 3, 2011 · Al-Biruni Votes: 3 10.3% Alboacen Votes: 0 0.0% Alexius I Comnenus Votes: 9 31.0% Alfonso VI of León and ...

Mar 19, 2015 · * Sediments, how Mountain Ranges are created, and the move of continents (landmasses) from seabeads to land. (al-Biruni and Ibn Sina). * The calculation of longitudes and latitudes (various). Which also drastically improved Geography. * Many findings in the field of chemestry (various) * Scientific Anthropology and Comparative Religion (al-Biruni)

Apr 20, 2016 · Two independent sources give some hints about it. First is Al-Biruni who mentions the Hindu scholars (probably along with them normal population, too) fleeing from the areas conquered by the Islamic hordes to the areas like Kashmir and Varanasi that were still beyond the reach of Islamic hordes. Second is Rajatarangini of Kalhana.

Aug 15, 2014 · You mentioned al-Biruni on purpose, but why don't we take a look on aaallll the other Iranian figures too ? did all the other significant group of Iranian figures do it too? no . Yes, some famous Iranian figures made some Arabic works, but if we would have to compare them with all the others, then the writing of the Persian language would win .

Sep 12, 2015 · In older scripts of Al-Biruni, Al-Khwarezmi, Masudi, in Juzjani's Hudud ul-'alam min al-mashriq ila al-maghrib and of Arab and Indian historians (Ibn Batuta, Ibn Khaldun or Vahara Mihira etc.) they are considered as one of the original (in the sense of real) members of the Hephtalite's confederation and of Turkic origin who are also found as ...