High Middle Ages · South Asia · Culture
1020
Al-Biruni publishes his India
1020
The Khwarezmian polymath, traveling in Mahmud of Ghazni's wake, finished a large-scale ethnographic study of Hindu learning and religion based on his own Sanskrit studies. His account of Hindu astronomy, philosophy, and caste practices was accurate and largely sympathetic, a model of comparative cultural study far ahead of its time.
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Also in 1020 (3 other events on record)
- Avicenna begins the Canon of Medicine · Central Asia · Science
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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