Filozofija i drustvo 2011 Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages: 53-86
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1101053M
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Bīrūnī and India: The first attempt to understand
Mudžtabai Fathulah (Univerzitet u Teheranu, Teheran, Iran)
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