The Criminal Investigation Branch in Damascus, acting on a report from the Central Financial Control Authority, has ...

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, ...

Damascus, SANA- Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Marwan al-Halabi, and the Minister of Health, Dr. Musab al-Ali, inaugurated the Mezzeh Medical Department of al-Biruni ...

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, ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Central Asian polymath al-Biruni and his 11th-century book India, one of the first scholarly works about the country. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss ...

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It was as if silver dust had been sprinkled on jet black cloth. I could not pull myself away from the stars. It was a clear night. A short spell of rain had settled the air. Nothing was between the ...