Place

Ghazni

Ghaznavid Empire · Modern Afghanistan

Capital of the Ghaznavid empire, where al-Biruni spent his later years and wrote his great, even-handed study of India.

Thinkers Connected to Ghazni

Al-Biruni

973 CE – c. 1048 CE

He measured the radius of the earth from a mountaintop and studied India without contempt. A scientist's mind in a scholar's century.

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