Abu Rayhan al-Biruni · Science
Al-Biruni’s <em>Tahqiq ma li-l-Hind</em> - the book in which he learned Sanskrit, read the Hindu sages in the original, and set out to report their doctrines ‘without prejudice,’ as a simple record of facts. It is a founding text of comparative religion and of Indology.
You learned that al-Biruni studied India by mastering Sanskrit and reading Hindu texts at the source, and declared his book ‘not a polemical one’ but a ‘simple historic record of facts’ presenting Hindu theories ‘exactly as they are.’ Explain his method and why it founds comparative…
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