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Kath (Khwarazm)

كاث خوارزم

Old city of Khwārezm on the Oxus, seat of the Afrighid Khwārezm-Shāhs and the birthplace of al-Bīrūnī.

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Persia & Central Asia
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Al-Biruni, Muhammad ibn Ahmad

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Al-Biruni at Qābūs's court, Gurgān· Al-Biruni takes refuge at Bukhara· Maḥmūd takes al-Bīrūnī to Ghazna· The Masʿūdic Canon dedicated· The book on India composed· Ghazna· Al-Biruni, Muhammad ibn Ahmad

Sources

  • GeoNames gazetteer
  • Al-Bīrūnī — Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Al-Biruni at Qābūs's court, Gurgān

At Gurgān near the Caspian al-Bīrūnī joined Qābūs ibn Voshmgīr's court, met Ibn Sīnā there and exchanged a sharp philosophical correspondence with him, and dedicated his Chronology of Ancient Nations to Qābūs.