| Richard Nelson Frye, Cambridge University Press, 1999 , 394 | |
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| Al-Biruni Persian scholar and scientist , Encyclopaedia Britannica:"A Persian by birth, a rationalist in disposition, this contemporary of Avicenna and Alhazen not only studied history, philosophy, and geography in depth, but wrote one of the most comprehensive of Muslim astronomical treatises, the Qanun Al-Masu'di | He was equally well versed in the mathematical, astronomic, physical and natural sciences and also distinguished himself as a geographer and historian, chronologist and linguist and as an impartial observer of customs and creeds |
Boilot, "Al-Biruni Beruni , Abu'l Rayhan Muhammad b.
25| Excerpt 2:"was one of the greatest scholars of mediaeval Islam, and certainly the most original and profound | Bacharach, Medieval Islamic Civilization: A-K, index: Vol |
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| He is known as al-Ustdadh, "the Master" | He was equally well versed in the mathematical, astronomic, physical and natural sciences and also distinguished himself as a geographer and historian, chronologist and linguist and as an impartial observer of customs and creeds |
Ahmad", in Leiden , New Ed.
11| Ahmad", in Encyclopaedia of Islam Leiden , New Ed | |
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| excerpt from page 112: "Although his native Khwarezmian was also an Iranian language, he rejected the emerging neo-Persian literature of his time Firdawsi , preferring Arabic instead as the only adequate medium of science | ; Borwein, Jonathan; Borwein, Peter 2014 |
but the vowel of the first syllable is majhul, which means that in more ancient times it was pronounced Beron or Bayroon.
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