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 Cf. Kitāb al-Tafhīm li-avā'il Sinā'at al-Tanjīm, ed. Jalāl Homāyi (Tehran: Ministry of Education, 1939), pp. III, VI, LIX. Hereafter cited as Al-Taihīm.

2 Cf. D. J. Boilot, L'Oeuvre d'al-Bīrūnī: Essai Bibliographique, MIDEO, II (1955), 161-256 and III (1956), 391-396.

3 Carra de Vaux, Les Penseurs de l'Islam (Paris: Librairie Paul Gautner, 1921), II, 75.

4 Cf. Bīrūnī, India, trans. Edward C. Sachau (New Delhi: S. Chand and Company, 1964), I, 3-4. Hereafter cited as India. Cf. also Arabic text, ed. E. C. Sachau (London: Trübner and Company, 1887), 2.

5 Ibid., I, 4; and Arabic text, p. 2.

6 Cf. A. Jeffery, "Al-Biruni's Contribution to Comparative Religions," Al-Bīrūnī Commemoration Volume (Calcutta: Iran Society, 1951), pp. 132-133. Hereafter cited as Commemoration.

7 India, I, 6; and Arabic text, p. 4.

8 Cf. Sachau, India, p. XXVI; and I, 162-163; II, 76; also Arabic text, pp. 72, 240.

9 Quoted from Syed Hasan Barani, "Muslim Researches in Geodesy," Commemoration...

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