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Brilliant Biruni [electronic resource] : a life story of Abu Rayhan Mohammad Ibn Ahmad / M. Kamiar.

Kamiar, Mohammad.
2009
Q143.B5 K36 2009eb
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Title
Brilliant Biruni [electronic resource] : a life story of Abu Rayhan Mohammad Ibn Ahmad / M. Kamiar.
Author
Kamiar, Mohammad.
ISBN
9780810862449 (electronic book)
9780810862432
0810862433
0810862441 (electronic book)
Published
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : map
Call Number
Q143.B5 K36 2009eb
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-187) and index.
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Village of Vasemereed, Khwarazam, south of Lake Aral, central Asia
Into the darkness
Into slavery
Mulla Hasssan
The ghuzz
Yalldowz
The escape
Yalldowz again
The people of Tammami
Abu Nasr Mansur
The Andalusians
Debates
Lady Rayhana (sweet basil)
Political turmoil
The wandering years
The city of Gorgan
Azarmidoukht
Maria again
Fruitful years
The city of Ghazna
India
The end.

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