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Book/Printed MaterialCritical Study of What India Says, Whether Accepted by Reason Or Refuted. Abu al-Rayhan al-Biruni (also known by the Latinized version of his name, Alberonius, 973--1048 AD; 363--439 AH) was an 11th-century Muslim polymath whose works and scholarly interests spanned the physical and natural sciences, mathematics, astronomy, geography, history, chronology, and linguistics. Al-Biruni was born in Kath, Khuwarazm, in present-day Uzbekistan, and died in Ghazni, in what is today east-central Afghanistan. He wrote more than 120...
- Contributor: Bīrūnī, Muhammad Ibn Ahmad, 973
- Date: 1957-01-01
- Resource: - 692 pages
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Photo, Print, DrawingRuins of Prambanan, Tjandi Sewoe, Soerakarta Residence.
Ruïnen van Prambanan, Tjandi Sewoe, Residentie Soerakarta This photograph depicts the ruins of the temple of Prambanan in central Java, the largest Hindu temple ever built in Indonesia and one of the largest in Southeast Asia. Dedicated to the triumvirate of Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu, the temple was built around 850 A.D. by the Mataram dynasty but abandoned soon after its construction. The Mataram dynasty practiced aspects of both Hinduism and...- Contributor: Springer, C.
- Date: 1852-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page