Born in Kath, Khwarezm – a region that today would be cover parts of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan – Abu Raihan Muhammad al-Biruni was a man of many scientific talents. His extensive ...

Born in the 10th century in Iran’s Khorasan, Al-Biruni was also an ethnographer, anthropologist, historian, and geographer. He became the most original polymath the Islamic world had ever known.

Born in the 10th century in Iran’s Khorasan, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni was a Muslim astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer, anthropologist, historian, and geographer. In his poem preserved in a medieval ...

Little is known of the early life of the Iranian scholar and polymath Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni; however, as the name suggests he was born in Beruniy, a small city in Uzbekistan in Western Central Asia ...

Born on September 4, 973 AD, Al-Biruni was also an ethnographer, anthropologist, historian, and geographer. He became the most original polymath the Islamic world had ever known. As the name suggests, ...

Latest research shows that Central Asian Muslim scholar Abu Raihan al Biruni discovered the Americas hundreds of years prior to Christopher Columbus – the Spanish explorer who has always been credited ...

One thousand years ago, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a Central Asian scholar, conceived the concept of specific gravity, rejected creationism and argued that the Earth revolved around the sun. And now, ...