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Al-Biruni, Persian physician and polymath (died 1048)
Al-Biruni, Persian physician and polymath (died 1048)
Al-Biruni, Persian physician and polymath (died 1048)
Al-Biruni
Persian scholar and polymath (973–1050)
- Born
- 973
Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, known as al-Biruni was a Khwarazmian Iranic scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously "Father of Comparative Religion", "Father of modern geodesy", Founder of Indology and the first anthropologist.