{"id":138,"date":"2024-12-02T09:02:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T09:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/62.72.56.4:2020\/?p=138"},"modified":"2024-12-08T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T06:30:00","slug":"al-biruni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kul.af\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/al-biruni\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Biruni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni<\/strong> \/\u00e6lb\u026a\u02c8ru\u02d0ni\/<\/a> (Persian<\/a>: \u0627\u0628\u0648\u0631\u06cc\u062d\u0627\u0646 \u0628\u06cc\u0631\u0648\u0646\u06cc; Arabic<\/a>: \u0623\u0628\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u064a\u062d\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u064a\u0631\u0648\u0646\u064a; 973 \u2013 after 1050),[5]<\/a><\/sup> known as al-Biruni<\/strong>, was a Khwarazmian<\/a> Iranian<\/a>[6]<\/a><\/sup> scholar and polymath<\/a> during the Islamic Golden Age<\/a>. He has been called variously “Father of Comparative Religion<\/a>“, “Father of modern geodesy<\/a>“, Founder of Indology<\/a> and the first anthropologist<\/a>.[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al-Biruni was well versed in physics<\/a>, mathematics, astronomy<\/a>, and natural sciences<\/a>, and also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist<\/a>, and linguist<\/a>. He studied almost all the sciences of his day and was rewarded abundantly for his tireless research in many fields of knowledge.[8]<\/a><\/sup> Royalty and other powerful elements in society funded al-Biruni’s research and sought him out with specific projects in mind. Influential in his own right, Al-Biruni was himself influenced by the scholars of other nations, such as the Greeks, from whom he took inspiration when he turned to the study of philosophy. A gifted linguist, he was conversant in Khwarezmian<\/a>, Persian<\/a>, Arabic, and Sanskrit<\/a>, and also knew Greek<\/a>, Hebrew<\/a>, and Syriac<\/a>. He spent much of his life in Ghazni<\/a>, then capital of the Ghaznavids<\/a>, in modern-day central-eastern Afghanistan. In 1017, he travelled to the Indian subcontinent<\/a> and wrote a treatise on Indian culture entitled T\u0101r\u012bkh al-Hind<\/em> (“The History of India<\/em>“), after exploring the Hindu<\/a> faith practiced in India.[a]<\/a><\/sup> He was, for his time, an admirably impartial writer on the customs and creeds of various nations, his scholarly objectivity earning him the title al-Ustadh<\/em> (“The Master”) in recognition of his remarkable description of early 11th-century India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni \/\u00e6lb\u026a\u02c8ru\u02d0ni\/ (Persian: \u0627\u0628\u0648\u0631\u06cc\u062d\u0627\u0646 \u0628\u06cc\u0631\u0648\u0646\u06cc; Arabic: \u0623\u0628\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u064a\u062d\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u064a\u0631\u0648\u0646\u064a; 973 \u2013 after 1050),[5] known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian[6] scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously “Father of Comparative Religion“, “Father of modern geodesy“, Founder of Indology and the first anthropologist.[7] Al-Biruni was well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy, and natural sciences, and also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist, and linguist. He studied almost all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kul.af\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kul.af\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kul.af\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kul.af\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kul.af\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kul.af\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/kul.af\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kul.af\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kul.af\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kul.af\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kul.af\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}