SCHOLARS

Thanks to the precious books written by the famous represen­tatives of the school of Islamic law on legal matters, law schools of Maveraunnahr have been highly appreciated for centuries. As a component part of the legacy left by our great ancestors several centuries ago, they serve as one of the …

Kasani occupied the position of the Head Master in Halaviya Madrasah up to the end of his life. A historian al-Qurashi writes that Kasani began to deliver lessons in Halaviya after Iftikhar ad-din al-Hashimi. During his career as a lecturer at the madrasah, lots of students and disciples of the …

His full name was Alauddin Abu Bakr ibn Ahmad al-Kasani, who was also known with his honourable title “Malik al-ulama” (King of Scholars). By profession, he was a lawyer of the Hanafian order. The books devoted to his life and career do not give enough information about his youth and …

Optimistic rays of the independence gained by our country are widening the scale of our thought and making positive changes in it. This pleasant process can be seen in the possibilities provided by the independence to study and understand our ancient and rich history, incomparable resources of our spiritual heritage …

We do not have enough information at our disposal about the manuscripts of this book but we hope the investigations being carried out in our days will be fruitful in providing information about the manuscripts which have reached us. It is a great pleasure for us to state that one …

Since very ancient times, our country has been famous for its scholars, scientists, thinkers and geniuses — experts in different branches of secular and religious sciences and education. Thanks to the independence our country has gained, we are provided with possibilities to study and investigate their scientific and educational heritage. …

Beruni was the first to carry out social inquiries and analysis about social events taking place in the society, the role of social envi­ronment in the process of social development of the society, the influence of the climate on the character and appearance of the inha­bitants, the role of the …

Beruni’s next book titled as “Al-Qanun al-Mas’udi” (The Laws of the Ruler Mas’ud) was written in 1030. It contains detailed description of the basic principles and main rules of the mathe­matical astronomy, the main coordinates of the heavenly bodies and the ways of counting their directions. Most of the teachings …

During 1035-1036, Beruni compiled the list of his scientific works consisting of 113 titles. 70 of these works were devoted to the problems of astronomy, 20 of them were on mathematics, 12 of them were devoted to the problems of geography and geodesy,3 of I hem were on mineralogy and …

In 1005, Beruni came back to his motherland Khoresm. In 1010, the ruler of Khoresm Abul Abbas Ma’mun II gave orders to bring the scholar Beruni to Urgench, the capital city of Khoresm because he had good respect to Beruni as an appreciated teacher. In his turn, Beruni described the …