Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī.

Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī.
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1 On the relations between Mahmūd and al-Bīrūnī, see E. C. Sachau, trans., Albīrūnī's India, London, 1910, reprinted Delhi, 1964; I, p. xi; E. G. Browne, trans., Chahār Maqāla of Nizāmī-i-'Arudī, London, 1921; pp. 65-67; and E. J. Kennedy, "Al-Bīrūnī"a in C. C. Gillespie, Dictionary of Scientific Biography II, p. 150.

2 E. J. Kennedy, op. cit., p. 152.

3 A. H. Dani, Albīrūnīn's Indica, Islamabad, 1973.

4 Sachmi, op. cit., I, p. 7. For the Arabic text, see Hyderabad edition, 1958; p. 4.

5 On the Chronology reference, see E. C. Sachau, Kitāb al-āthār al-bāqiya 'an al-qurūn al-khāliya (Chronologie orientalischer Volker von Albērūnī,), Leipzig, 1878; pp. 4, 5 & 68; trans., The Chronology of Ancient Nations, pp. 3,4 & 81. On the India material, see Sachau I, pp. 24-25; Hyderabad, p. 18.

6 See F. Rosenthal, "Al-Bīrūnī between Greece and India," (p. 10).

7 Sachau I, p...

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