Bücher von Muhammad ibn Ahmad Biruni

Alberuni's India af Muhammad ibn Ahmad Biruni

- An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India about AD 1030

von Muhammad ibn Ahmad Biruni

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Translated and annotated by the German orientalist Edward Sachau (1845-1930), this two-volume 1887-8 work is an account of Indian life in the early medieval period by Muslim polymath and traveller Alberuni (973-1048). Volume 1 discusses among other subjects Hindu beliefs, the caste system and the calendar.