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Bîrûnî ( 4 Eylül 973 - 1051), FarsRahman Habib, A Chronology of Islamic History, 570-1000 CE, Mansell Publishing, p. 167:
"A Persian by birth, Biruni produced his writings in Arabic, though he knew, besides Persian, no less than four other languages."Biruni (2007). Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved April 22, 2007.David C. Lindberg, Science in the Middle Ages, University of Chicago Press, p. 18:
"A Persian by birth, a rationalist in disposition, this contemporary of Avicenna and Alhazen not only studied history, philosophy, and geography in depth, but wrote one of the most comprehensive of Muslim astronomical treatises, the Qanun Al-Masu'di." bilgin ve hezârfen. Tam adı Ebu Reyhan Muhammed bin Ahmed el-Birûnî ( Farsça: بیرونی , Arapça: ابو الريحان محمد بن احمد البيروني). Batı dillerinde adı Alberuni veya Aliboron olarak geçer. Gökbilim, matematik, doğa bilimleri, coğrafya ve tarih alanındaki çalışmalarıyla tanınır.http://www.sondevir.com/tarihtebugun/249516/unlu-islam-bilgini-birn-vefat-etti.html