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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 991 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABU-R-RAII;IAN MUHAMMAD AL-BIRUNI] (973-1048), Arabian See also:scholar, was See also:born of See also:Persian parentage in Khwarizm (See also:Khiva), and was a Shi'ite in See also:religion. He devoted his youth to the study of See also:history, See also:chronology, See also:mathematics, See also:astronomy, See also:philosophy and See also:medicine. He corresponded with See also:Ibn Slna (see See also:AVICENNA), and the answers of the latter are still preserved in the See also:British Museum. For some years he lived in Jurjan, and then went to See also:India, where he remained some years teaching See also:Greek philosophy and learning See also:Indian. In 1017 he was taken by Mahmud of See also:Ghazni to See also:Afghanistan, where he remained until his See also:death in 1048. His Athar ul-Bakiya (Vestiges of the Past) was published by C. E. Sachau (See also:Leipzig, 1878), and a See also:translation into See also:English under the See also:title The Chronology of See also:Ancient Nations (See also:London, 1879). His History of India was published by C. E. Sachau (London, 1887), and an English translation (2 vols., London, 1888). Other See also:works of his, chiefly on mathematics and astronomy, are still in See also:manuscript only.

See C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (See also:

Weimar, 1898), vol. i. pp. 475-476. (G. W.

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