Question

The book Kitab- Ul-Hind was written by
1. Ibn Battuta
2. Al-Biruni
3. Ibn Khaldun
4. Muhammad Al-Idrisi

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Al-Biruni

The correct answer is Alberuni.

• Kitab-ul-Hind was written by Al-Biruni. 
• It is a famous Arabic text wherein he comments on Indian Sciences, Hindu religious beliefs, customs, and Social organization. 
• Al-Biruni was the First Muslim Scholar to study India and its Brahmanical tradition.
• He is called the father of Indology and the first anthropologist.
• He is called one of the earliest and greatest polymaths of the Islamic World.
• Alberuni in his book Kitab-ul-Hind appreciated a very high degree of proficiency of Indians in the construction of Tanks and reservoirs at holy places.

• Ibn Battuta 
  • Ibn Battuta was a Muslim Moroccan scholar.
  • Ibn Batuta's book name is Rihia that is written in Arabic, provides extremely rich and interesting details about the social and cultural life in the subcontinent in the fourteenth century.
• Ibn Khaldun
  • He was an Arab sociologist, philosopher, and historian who has been described as the founder of the modern disciplines of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography.
• Muhammad Al-Idrisi
  • Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti
  • He was an Arab Muslim geographer, cartographer, and Egyptologist who for some time lived in Palermo, Sicily at the court of King Roger II.
  • Muhammed al-Idrisi was born in Ceuta then belonged to the Almoravids.