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Al-Biruni

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Al-Biruni
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Al-Biruni’s study of India drew on conversations with learned people and on books. In the text he describes how difficult it was to work across Sanskrit and Arabic. Read that passage before treating his account as a window onto all of India. It shows what he could learn from the people and texts he could reach.
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