Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī (Author)
Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī (d. ca. 442/1050) was an accomplished Iranian scholar and polymath.
Mario Kozah received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in Oriental Studies. He moved to Lebanon in 2003 and began teaching Arabic, Semitic Studies, and Syriac language and literature at the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages and Islamic Studies at CAMES. He is twice recipient of a Qatar National Research Fund grant and is the lead editor of the trilogy The Syriac Writers of Qatar in the Seventh Century; An Anthology of Syriac Writers from Qatar in the Seventh Century; and Dadisho Qatraya’s Compendious Commentary on the Paradise of the Egyptian Fathers in Garshuni. He has also edited Jawdat Haydar’s Poetic Legacy: Issues of Modernity, Belonging, Language and Transcendence, and he is the author of The Birth of Indology as an Islamic Science: Al-Bīrūnī’s Treatise on Yoga Psychology.