Al-Biruni, Abdul
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Birthname | Ibn Ahmad, Abdul-Rayhammad | ||||
born on | 4 September 973 Jul.Cal. at 05:05 (= 05:05 AM ) | ||||
Place | Kath, Uzbekistan, 41n33, 60e10 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m60e10 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Biography
Iranian scholar and polymath, a mathematician, historian, astronomer and astrologer during the Islamic Golden Age, who has been called variously the "founder of Indology", "Father of Comparative Religion", "Father of modern geodesy", and the first anthropologist.
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 ("The Master") in recognition of his remarkable description of early 11th-century India.
He died on 13 December 1048 (Jul.Cal.) in Ghazni (now Afghanistan).
The lunar crater Al-Biruni and the asteroid 9936 Al-Biruni were named in his honour.
Events
- Death, Cause unspecified 13 December 1048 Jul.Cal. (19 Dec 1048 greg.) in Ghazni (age 75)
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Source Notes
Roscoe Hope quotes "Arabic Astrology" in AA 6/82. Calculated by Al-Ghadanfar, an Arabic astrologer of some note, a near contemporary of Al-Biruni. Recalculated by Dr. J.K. Fotheringham of Oxford, "the map may be considered as fully authentic." (4 September Jul.Cal.).
Categories
- Traits : Mind : Exceptional mind (Outstanding scholar)
- Lifestyle : Social Life : Party animal
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Ethnologist
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Historian
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Linguist
- Vocation : Occult Fields : Astrologer (Pro)
- Vocation : Science : Astronomy
- Vocation : Science : Chemistry
- Vocation : Science : Geology
- Vocation : Science : Mathematics/ Statistics
- Vocation : Science : Physics
- Vocation : Writers : Astrology
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- Notable : Extraordinary Talents : For Languages (Conversant in Khwarezmian, Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit)
- Notable : Extraordinary Talents : For Numbers
- Notable : Famous : Historic figure
- 973 births
- Birthday 4 September
- Birthplace Kath, UZ
- Sun 16 Virgo
- Moon 8 Scorpio
- Asc 9 Virgo
- 1048 deaths
- Traits : Mind : Exceptional mind
- Lifestyle : Social Life : Party animal
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Ethnologist
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Historian
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Linguist
- Vocation : Occult Fields : Astrologer
- Vocation : Science : Astronomy
- Vocation : Science : Chemistry
- Vocation : Science : Geology
- Vocation : Science : Mathematics/ Statistics
- Vocation : Science : Physics
- Vocation : Writers : Astrology
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- Notable : Extraordinary Talents : For Languages
- Notable : Extraordinary Talents : For Numbers
- Notable : Famous : Historic figure