Bīrūnī and India: The first attempt to understand

pages: 53-86

Abstract

In this paper author focuses his attention on one of biggest Indologist of all times - Abū Raihan Al-Bīrūnī (973-1048). This itinerant scholar has acquainted himself with the roots of Hindu culture and philosophy at a time when next to nothing was known outside India about the range and richness of its heritage. Keywords: Indo-Muslim inter-cultural synthesis, Abu Raihan al-Biruni, cultural pluralism and emerging plural society of India