#al-biruni

▤ Reading group: al-Bīrūnī’s India, the preface and the chapter on why understanding is hard

Around 1030 the scholar al-Bīrūnī completed a book usually known in English as India (or Alberuni's India). He had learned Sanskrit, read Indian works with pandits, and set out to describe Indian religion, philosophy and science as their adherents understood them. It…