Alberuni's India An Account Of The Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws And Astrology Of India About A.D. 1030 Volume 2 Vols. Set

About the Book: - Abu Raiham Mahamed Ibn Ahmed Albe Alberuni, or his compatriots cassed him Abu Raiham was born in 973 in the feretory of modern Ichiva, then called Khwarizm. He distinguished himself early in Science and Literature and played a political part as councillors of the ruling prince of this native country of the Mamuni family. Alberuni self a strong inch nation toward Indian Philosophy he seems to have thought that the philosophers in both India and Greece held, in reality the very same ideas monotheism. In the opening of the book he gives the circumstance that led him to write this book. In this book he gives extensive questions from the Classical Hindu authors and presents a picture of Indian civilization as painted by the Hindus themselves. Most chapters begin with an introduction a general nature and consist of three parts: a précis of the subject discussed along with his criticism, then brings forward the doctrines using extensive quotations and finally comparing them with the theories an ancient Greece and other civilizations. Apart from being an author Alberuni was also a physical scholar, and wrote extensively on natural science, optics, mechanics, mineralogy and chemistry. About the Author: - Carl Eduard Sachau was a German orientalist. He studied oriental languages at the Universities of Kiel and Leipzig, obtaining his PhD at Halle in 1867. He became a professor extraordinary of Semitic philology (1869) and a full professor (1872) at the University of Vienna, and in 1876, a professor at the University of Berlin, where he was appointed director of the new Seminar of Oriental languages (1887). He received the honorary degree Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from the University of Oxford in October 1902, in connection with the tercentenary of the Bodleian Library. He travelled to the Near East on several occasions (see his book Reise in Syrien und Mesopotamien, published 1883 . He is especially noteworthy for his work on Syriac and other Aramaic dialects. He was an expert on Persian polymath Al-Biruni and wrote a translation of Kitab ta'rikh al-Hind, Al-Biruni's encyclopaedic work on India. Also, Sachau wrote papers related to Ibadism. The Title 'Alberuni's India An Account Of The Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws And Astrology Of India About A.D. 1030 written/authored/edited by Alberuni, Dr. Edward C. Sachau', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121231039 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 899 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:- 2 Vols. Set