SOURCE: "Foreign Interpreters of India: The Case of Al-Blir-i," in The Scholar and the Saint: Studies in Commemoration of the Abu 'l-Rayhan al-Bīrūnī and Jala al-din al-Rumi, edited by Peter J. Chelkowski, New York University Press, 1975, pp. 1-16.
[In the essay that follows, originally delivered as a lecture in 1974, Embree considers al-Bīrūnī's contribution to the study of the history of India and claims that his work neither reduces the complexity of Indian civilization to a false simplicity nor loses its clarity in describing a proliferation of beliefs, practices, and events.]
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