@article{438742,
      recid = {438742},
      author = {Kamiar, Mohammad.},
      title = {Brilliant Biruni a life story of Abu Rayhan Mohammad Ibn  Ahmad / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Scarecrow Press,},
      address = {Lanham, Md. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (viii, 192 p.) :},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {Abu Raihan Biruni (973-1053 CE) was an Iranian scholar  whose extraordinary achievements include predicting the  existence of landmasses (North and South America) on the  opposite side of the Earth and calculating the radius of  the Earth five centuries before the European Renaissance.  In Brilliant Biruni, Mohammad S. Kamiar presents the life  of one of the greatest scholars in the history of the  world: the story of a boy who became Biruni.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438742},
}