Biruni (Al-Bīrūnī, ’Abū Raiḥān)

(Language: Persian)

Short Description: (name) scholar (male), born 973, died 1048

Long Description: A learned polymath, called al-ustād (“the teacher”). Author of the encyclopedic Book of India (Kitāb al-Hind).

Sources: Introduction to Sufi Doctrine (by Titus Burckhardt)

Notes & References: See Alberuni’s India (ed. E.C. Sachau)