Very few people know that AlBiruni accurately measured the earth’s circumference near Jehlum in Pakistan.
Even fewer know he used a technique made by Al Mansur’s astrologers.
Almost no one knows the base of Astrology in Al Mansur’s era was laid by Kanaka; a man from Sindh. 1/5
Even fewer know he used a technique made by Al Mansur’s astrologers.
Almost no one knows the base of Astrology in Al Mansur’s era was laid by Kanaka; a man from Sindh. 1/5
Kanaka was a part of the delegation from Sindh who visited the courts of Caliph Almansur in 771. This delegation translated a plethora of native scientific texts. Out of these the most significant was astrology, the Indus texts laid the base of the Astrology of Golden Age Islam.
It’s always been weird for me. On the west we have hubs of Golden age literatature and science and on the east we have India who boast of supplying much of the knowledge of this golden age to Muslim in that era. So how could it be that us in the middle were insignificant?
But we were not. The Indus basin(Pakistan) contributed the most to Islamic Golden Age. I’ve been meaning to highlight it but for this to happen, we’d have to first acknowledge that the area was majority Buddhist and Hindu before we were Muslims.
Kanaka too was initially a Hindu. This exchange of knowledge between the Indus Basin and the Caliphate played its role in ingraining Islam in the region.
The more we run from it, the more we become oblivious who we are.
The more we run from it, the more we become oblivious who we are.
