Biruni

The Persian Al-Biruni, who measured the height of a mountain and the angle of dip of the horizon to calculate the circumference of the planet to within an accuracy of 1%, warned that the extremist would stamp the sciences as atheistic and would proclaim that they led people astray, in order to make ignoramuses of them, and to hate the sciences.

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili – review Tim Radford 2010

Biruni was a sharp guy - he was a real astronomer as opposed to an astrologer.

Name That Rover - NASA Watch 2009

Note 12: See al-Biruni, Bosworth (1963 and 1977), Minorsky (1937), and al-Utbi.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

He summoned Persian scholars and writers to Ghazna, enlisting from Khwarazm, for example, Abu Raihan Muhammad ibn-I-Ahmad al-Biruni (973-1048) in his service as court astrologer.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 14 The Founding of the First Two Turkic Islamic States 2006

According to the eleventh century Muslim historian, al-Biruni, there had previously been a large number all the way to the borders of Syria.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 2 Sogdia and Bactria on the Eve of the Umayyad Period 2006

Like the previous works by al-Kermani and al-Biruni, Rashid al-Din explained Buddhism in Muslim terms.

Buddhist-Muslim Doctrinal Relations: Past, Present, and Future 2001

Death of Muhammad al-Biruni (b. 973), considered among the most learned scholars of the Islamic world.

1008 2001

For example, during the Ghaznavid Dynasty, the Persian historian, al-Biruni, accompanied Mahmud of Ghazni on his early eleventh century CE invasion of the Indian subcontinent.

Buddhist-Muslim Doctrinal Relations: Past, Present, and Future 2001

Others dismiss this last piece of evidence and explain that al-Biruni was merely describing that people in India regarded Buddha as a prophet.

Introduction to Buddhism from an Islamic Point of View 1996

Some scholars accept this theory and, as support for this position, point out that the eleventh-century Muslim historian of India, al-Biruni, referred to Buddha as a Prophet.

Introduction to Buddhism from an Islamic Point of View 1996