Who Was Alive

Al-Biruni

11th-century Persian scholar and polymath

Born 4 September AD 973 · died 9 December 1048, aged 75

Who was alive at the same time as Al-Biruni?

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When Al-Biruni was born, Ferdowsi was 33.

Born during Al-Biruni’s lifetime: Avicenna, William the Conqueror, Urban II and Anselm of Canterbury.

Not quite contemporaries: Al-Ghazali was born 6 years after Al-Biruni died and Otto I the Great died months before Al-Biruni was born.

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