| He is known as al-Ustdadh, "the Master" | Ahmad", in Encyclopaedia of Islam Leiden , New Ed |
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| Massignon, "Al-Biruni et la valuer internationale de la science arabe" in Al-Biruni Commemoration Volume, Calcutta, 1951 | Excerpt 2:"was one of the greatest scholars of mediaeval Islam, and certainly the most original and profound |
| excerpt from page 112: "Although his native Khwarezmian was also an Iranian language, he rejected the emerging neo-Persian literature of his time Firdawsi , preferring Arabic instead as the only adequate medium of science | |
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| Ahmed 1984 , "Al-Beruni: The First Anthropologist" , RAIN 60• Bacharach, Medieval Islamic Civilization: A-K, index: Vol | Gotthard Strohmaier, "Biruni" in Josef W |
Excerpt 2:"was one of the greatest scholars of mediaeval Islam, and certainly the most original and profound.
7| He was equally well versed in the mathematical, astronomic, physical and natural sciences and also distinguished himself as a geographer and historian, chronologist and linguist and as an impartial observer of customs and creeds | |
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| Kennedy, The Cambridge History of Iran: The period from the Arab invasion to the Saljuqs, Ed | Richard Nelson Frye, Cambridge University Press, 1999 , 394 |
That the name was pronounced in this way in Central Asia about the author's time, we learn from indisputable statement regarding our author from the pen of Alsam'ani, a philologist and biographer of high repute.
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