Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of I Bīrūnī
Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of I Bīrūnī Translated and annotated by orientalist Edward Sachau…
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Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of I Bīrūnī
Translated and annotated by orientalist Edward Sachau (1845 1930), this 1887 8 two-volume work is the account by Muslim polymath and traveller Alberuni (973 1048) of Indian political and social life in the medieval period. Alberuni, born in Chorasmia, south of the Aral Sea, was one of the leading scholars of his day. Sachau published the manuscript in Arabic in 1885 6, at the same time working on an English translation.
Alberuni claims that his work is not polemical in nature, but a simple historical record of facts, and he commends the learning of the Hindus in philosophy, mathematics and astronomy. He accompanied the Afghan ruler Mahmud on his invasion of India in the early eleventh century, and remained there for thirteen years, making a detailed study of Indian life and culture, and in particular studying the Hindu religion. Volume 2 discusses among other subjects astronomy,