Abu al-Rayḥān Muhammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (c. 362-440 AH = 963-1048 CE)

Born Khwarezm in Khurasan (Turkmenistan), died Ghazna in Ghaznavid Afghanistan  (today = Afghanistan)

 

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al-Bīrūnī =  Abu'l-Rayḥān Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Bīrūnī (d. 422/1051).

Kitab al-Āthār al‑bāqiyya 'an al‑qurūn al‑khāliyya ("The Chronology of Ancient Nations").*

  • الآثار الباقية عن القرون الخالية : The Remaining Traces of Past Centuries...

  • al-Āthār al‑bāqiyya 'an al‑qur'ūn al‑khāliyya. C. E. Sachau. Leipzig:  F. A. Brockhaus, 1878. 

  • English trans. C. E. Sachau as The Chronology of Ancient Nations. London, 1879. Rep. Frankfurt: Minerva, 1969.

  • K. al-Athar al-baqiyya `an al-qurun al-khaliyya (Chronologie orientalischer Völker, published by Edward Sachau, Leipzig 1878, reprinted by helioplan, Leipzig 1923.
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  • Kitab al-Āthār al‑bāqiyya 'an al‑qurūn al‑khāliyya. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya, 1420/2000. (328pp.). *

Taḥqīq mā l'l-Hind ("al-Bīrūnī's India") Arabic - A compendium of India's religion and philosophy *

  • تحقيق ما للهند من مقولة معقولة في العقل أم مرذولة :  

  • Taḥqīq mā l'l-Hind.  Beirut: `Ālam al-Kutub. 2nd ed. 1404/1983.

  • AlBeruni's India. C.E. Sachau 2 vols. in 1 Rep. Delhi: Low Price Pub. [1910] 1989.

  • Alberuni's India. Trans. Edward C. Sachau. London: Trübner, 1888.
  • K. Ta"ri¦kh al-Hind (Al-Beruni's India, ed. E. Sachau, London 1887
  •  English trans, 2 vols., London 1888.

  • T-Hind = Taḥqīq mā l’l-Hind.  Beirut: `Ālam al-Kutub. 2nd ed. 1404/1983. *

  • India   = AlBeruni’s India. C. E. Sachau 2 vols. in 1 Rep. Delhi: Low Price Pub. [Rep. 1910] 1989.  *

  • Sachau E. C., trans. Alberuni's India. New Delhi: Low Price Publications, 1993. *

  • Kitāb al-Bīrūnī fl Tahqīq Mâ li'l-Hind. Dairatu'l-Ma'arifi'l-Osmania Publications 9. Hyderabad: Osmania Oriental Publications Bureau, 1958.
  • al-Biruni, Abu'l-Rayhan al-Biruni's own list of his works (Uzbek), in Collection dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the birth of al-Biruni (Tashkent, 1973), 230-243.

 

  • قانون مسعود :  The Mas'udi Canon (Persian)  A book about Astronomy, Geography and Engineering, named after Mas'ud, son of Mahmud of Ghazni, to whom he dedicated
  • التفهيم لصناعة التنجيم : Understanding Astrology (Arabic+Persian ) A question and answer style book about mathematics and astronomy, in Arabic and Persian
  • Pharmacy - about drugs and medicines
  • الجماهر في معرفة الجواهر  Gems (Arabic ) about geology, minerals, and gems, dedicated to Mawdud son of Mas'ud
  • Astrolabe
  • A historical summary book
  • History of Mahmud of Ghazni and his father
  • History of Khawarazm

 

Select Secondary Sources

Boilot, D. J,

  •  L'Oeuvre d'al-Biruni: Essai Bibliographique, in MIDEO, ii, 161-256 and iii, 391-396, 1956
     

Ritter, Helmut,

  •  La traduction du Livre de Patanjali par Biruni communication in Persian in the Livre du Millenaire d'Avicenne, ii, 134-148, Tehran 1955
     

Kennedy, E S

  • A commentary upon Biruni's 'Kitab Tahdid al-Amakin' : An 11th century treatise on mathematical geography (Beirut, 1973).
  •  Al-Biruni on determining the meridian, Math. Teacher 56 (1963), 635-637.
  • + Y Id, A letter of al-Biruni : Habash al-Hasib's analemma for the gibla, Historia Math. 1 (1) (1974), 3-11.
  • E S Kennedy and M-T Debarnot, Two mappings proposed by Biruni, Z. Gesch. Arab.-Islam. Wiss. 1 (1984), 145-147.

Muminov, I M ,  (ed.),

  • al-Biruni and Ibn Sina : Correspondence (Russian) (Tashkent, 1973).

Rozenfe'd,B A  +  M M Rozhanskaya and Z K Skolovskaya,

  • Abu'l-Rayhan al-Biruni (973-1048) (Russian) (Moscow, 1973).

Sadykov, H U

  • Biruni and his work on astronomy and mathematical geography (Russian) (Moscow, 1953).

Said (ed.), H M

  • al-Biruni commemorative volume : Proceedings of the International Congress held in Karachi, November 26-December 12, 1973 (Karachi, 1979).

Sirazdinov S H ., + G P Matvievskaja,

  • al-Biruni and his mathematical works (Russian) (Moscow, 1978).

Zikrillaev, F

  •  Al-Biruni's works on physics (Russian) (Tashkent, 1973).

Kh F Abdulla-zade,

  • al-Biruni's letter to Abu Said (Russian), Izv. Akad. Nauk Tadzhik. SSR Otdel. Fiz.-Mat. Khim. i Geol. Nauk (3)(89) (1983), 16-19.

A Abdurahmonov, Some theorems of trigonometry in the works of al-Biruni (Uzbek), in Collection dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the birth of al-Biruni (Tashkent, 1973), 159-169.

S M Ahmad, al-Biruni as a synthesizer and transmitter of scientific knowledge, Indian J. History Sci. 10 (2) (1975), 244-248, 253.

M Ahmad, R Behari and B V Subbarayappa, al-Biruni : an introduction to his life and writings on the Indian sciences, Indian J. History Sci. 10 (2) (1975), 98-110.

A Ahmedov, Special questions of spherical astronomy and mathematics in al-Biruni's 'Canon Mas'uda' (Uzbek), in Collection dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the birth of al-Biruni (Tashkent, 1973), 111-122.

A Ahmedov and B A Rozenfel'd, 'Cartography' - one of Biruni's first essays to have reached us (Russian), in Mathematics in the East in the Middle Ages (Tashkent, 1978), 127-153.

A R Amir-Moéz, Khayyam,

  • al-Biruni, Gauss, Archimedes, and quartic equations, Texas J. Sci. 46 (3) (1994), 241-257.
  • +J C Aghayani, al-Biruni, al-Tusi, and Newton, Texas J. Sci. 32 (4) (1980), 289-292.

M S Asimov,

  • al-Biruni's astronomical treatise in the Dari language, Indian J. History Sci. 10 (2) (1975), 254-256, 277.

R B Baratov,

  •  Biruni - great scientist of the Orient (Russian), Izv. Akad. Nauk Tadzik. SSR Otdel. Fiz.-Mat. i Geolog.-Him. Nauk (3) (49) (1973), 3-5.

Berggren, J L

  • The origins of al-Biruni's 'method of the Zijes' in the theory of sundials, Centaurus 28 (1) (1985), 1-16.
  • al-Biruni on plane maps of the sphere : Including an Arabic text, J. Hist. Arabic Sci. 6 (1-2) (1982), 47-112.
  • A coincidence of Pappos' Book VIII with al-Biruni's Tahdid, J. Hist. Arabic Sci. 2 (1) (1978), 137-142.

 Boilot, D J

  • L'oeuvre d'al-Beruni. Essai Bibliographique, Mélanges de l'Institut dominicain d'études orientales 2 (1955), 161-256.