Description:
The name Alberuni derives from the Arabic word al-barq, meaning white or light colored. The name was originally given to Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, an Islamic scholar and mathematician who lived in Baghdad during the Abbasid period. Alberuni was also the name of an Islamic dynasty that ruled the Malwa region of present-day Madhya Pradesh, India from the 12th to the 15th centuries. The Alberuni dynasty was named after its founder, Ali ibn al-Husayn.
