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PERSON

Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī

Name (arabic)

أبو ريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني
Name (translit)

Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī
Alias

ابو الريحان البيرونى
Bīrūnī
Abū al-Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī
Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī
Abī Rayḥān Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī
Abī Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī
Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī
Maître Aliboron
Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī al-Khwārizmī
Born

0973 CE/ 0362 AH
Flourished

Died

1048 CE/ 0439 AH
Born in

Kaṯ
Lived in

Ghazna
Kaṯ
India
Gurganj
Student of

Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿIrāq al-Jaʿdī
Notes

For a comprehensive list of Bīrūnī's works, see www.albiruni.nl (maintained by Jan Hogendijk).
Number in MAMS

348
Biography URL

http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Biruni_BEA.htm
ismi_id

70924

References

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Pp. 170-72.

Browne, Edward. 1902. A Literary History of Persia. 4 vol. Cambridge: University Press.

Vol. 2, pp. 90-98, 101-5.

Suter, Heinrich. 1900. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke.. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen, Vol. 10. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner.

Pp. 98-100.

ʻInāyatullāh Muḥammad. 1893. Taz̲kirah-I Abū Raiḥān Bīrūnī. Agra: Mufīd-i ʻĀm.
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Vol. 2, pp. 20-21.

Sachau, Edward, and Abū Al-Bīrūnī. 1879. The Chronology of Ancient Nations [Āthār-Ul-bākiya, or "Vestiges of the Past"]. London: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; Allen.
Leclerc, Lucien. 1876. Histoire De La médecine Arabe: Exposé Complet Des Traductions Du Grec; Les Sciences En Orient, Leur Transmission à l’Occident Par Les Traductions Latines. 2 vol. Paris: E. Leroux.

Pp. 480-82.

Sachau, Edward. 1875. “Algebraisches über Das Schach Bei Bîrûnî”. Zeitschrift Der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 29 (1): 148-56.
Khalifa, Hajji. 1835. Hajji Khalifa. Kashf Al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī Al-Kutub waʾl-funūn = Lexicon Bibliographicum Et Encyclopaedicum a Mustafa Ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi Dicto Et Nomine Haji Khalfa Celebrato Compositum. Ed. Gustav Flügel. 7 vol. Leipzig-London: R. Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

Vol. 1, pp. 154, 258, 272, 277; vol. 2, pp. 192, 288, 324, 385, 429, 608; vol. 3, pp. 254, 366, 512, 567-68; vol. 4, pp. 80, 186, 501; vol. 5, pp. 33, 62, 110, 114, 386-88, 435; vol. 6, p. 53.

Barhebraeus. 1783. Des Gregorius Abulfaradsch Kurze Geschichte Der Dynastien; Oder, Auszug Der Allgemeinen Welt-Geschichte Besonders Der Geschichte Der Chalifen Und Mogolen. Trans. Georg Bauer. 2 vol. Leipzig: A.G. Böhme.

P. 229.

Barhebraeus. 1663. Historia Compendiosa Dynastiarvm. Trans. Edward Pococke. Oxford: Excudebat H. Hall.

P. 348.

Sarton, George. Introduction to the History of Science. 3 vols. in 5 vol. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Vol. ?, pp. 707-9.

Yād-nāma-Yi Kungra-Yi Abu’l-Rayhàn Bīrūnī (The Commemoration Volume of Bīrūnī International Congress in Tehran). 2 vol. Tehran.
Barani, Syed. “Al-Biruni’s Scientific Achievements”. Indo-Iranica 5: 33-48.
Al-Bīrūnī, al-Abū. Al-Qānūn Al-Masʿūdī [Al-Qānūnu’l-Mas`ūdī Canon Masudicus: An Encyclopaedia of Astronomical Sciences]. 3 vol. Hyderabad: Dā’irat al-Ma’ārif al-’Uthmānīyah [Osmania Oriental Publications Bureau].

This book has been translated into Russian; for English readers, Kennedy prepared a very convenient table of contents with brief summaries in English.

Al-Bīrūnī, al-Abū. Al-Qānūn Al-Masʿūdī [Al-Qānūnu’l-Mas`ūdī Canon Masudicus: An Encyclopaedia of Astronomical Sciences]. 3 vol. Hyderabad: Dā’irat al-Ma’ārif al-’Uthmānīyah [Osmania Oriental Publications Bureau].
Carra de Vaux, Bernard. Les Penseurs De l’Islam. 5 vol. Paris: P. Geuthner.

Vol. 4, pp. 75-87.

Storey, Charles, and François De Blois. Persian Literature: A Bio‐Bibliographical Survey. 5 vol. London: Luzac.

Pp. 44-45.