Ahmad", in Leiden , New Ed | He was equally well versed in the mathematical, astronomic, physical and natural sciences and also distinguished himself as a geographer and historian, chronologist and linguist and as an impartial observer of customs and creeds |
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He is known as al-Ustdadh, "the Master" | That the name was pronounced in this way in Central Asia about the author's time, we learn from indisputable statement regarding our author from the pen of Alsam'ani, a philologist and biographer of high repute |
Massignon, "Al-Biruni et la valuer internationale de la science arabe" in Al-Biruni Commemoration Volume, Calcutta, 1951.
but the vowel of the first syllable is majhul, which means that in more ancient times it was pronounced Beron or Bayroon | |
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Excerpt 2:"was one of the greatest scholars of mediaeval Islam, and certainly the most original and profound | excerpt from page 112: "Although his native Khwarezmian was also an Iranian language, he rejected the emerging neo-Persian literature of his time Firdawsi , preferring Arabic instead as the only adequate medium of science |
Gotthard Strohmaier, "Biruni" in Josef W | |
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Ahmad", in Encyclopaedia of Islam Leiden , New Ed | Kennedy, The Cambridge History of Iran: The period from the Arab invasion to the Saljuqs, Ed |
Boilot, "Al-Biruni Beruni , Abu'l Rayhan Muhammad b.