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Al-Bīrūnī, Afzal Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū al-Reḥān est un érudit persan. Mathématicien, astronome, physicien, encyclopédiste, philosophe, astrologue, voyageur, historien, pharmacologue et précepteur, il contribua grandement aux domaines des mathématiques, philosophie, médecine et des sciences. Il est connu pour avoir étudié la thèse de la rotation de la Terre autour de son axe et sa révolution autour du Soleil. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. septembre 973 – 9. décembre 1048
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Al-Biruni: Citations en anglais

“The Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs. no nation like theirs, no king like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs.”

Alberuni, I, p.22. quoted from K.S. Lal, Indian Muslims who are they, 1990
From Alberuni's India

“The linga he raised was the stone of Somnath, for soma means the moon and natha means master, so that the whole word means master of the moon. The image was destroyed by the Prince Mahmud, may God be merciful to him!”

Al-Biruni livre Alberuni's India

AH 416. He ordered the upper part to be broken and the remainder to be transported to his residence, Ghaznin, with all its coverings and trappings of gold, jewels, and embroidered garments. Part of it has been thrown into the hippodrome of the town, together with the Cakrasvamin, an idol of bronze, that had been brought from Taneshar. Another part of the idol from Somanath lies before the door of the mosque of Ghaznin, on which people rub their feet to clean them from dirt and wet.
Source: E.C. Sachau (tr.), Alberuni's India, New Delhi Reprint, 1983

“The repugnance of the Hindus against foreigners increased more and more when the Muslims began to make their inroads into their country.”

From Alberuni's India
Source: in Elliot and Dowson, quoted in Misra, R. G. (2005). Indian resistance to early Muslim invaders up to 1206 A.D. p.111