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Alberuni's India (Paperback, Abridged Ed)
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Alberuni's India (Paperback, Abridged Ed)
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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
the Hindus, and to discuss with them questions of religion,
science, or literature, on the very basis of their own
civilization." For thirteen years he traveled in North India,
observing, questioning, and studying. The result was an account of
Indian culture that is unique in its sympathetic understanding,
shrewdness of observation, and probing analysis.
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