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On al-Bīrūnī and his book "India" (al-Hind)
Al-Bīrūnī was an astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher who died in the middle of the 11th century CE.

Look, here he is on a stamp!
Among his works is an epistolary exchange with his contemporary, the great Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), which questions problems having to do with Aristotelian natural philosophy.
His knowledge of Greek philosophy is also shown by his work on India (finished 1030 CE), in which he took advantage of the opportunity to interview prisoners of war from India at the court of Maḥmūd of Ghazna.
In this work al-Bīrūnī repeatedly compares Indian philosophical ideas to what he knows of Greek philosophy, for example that a belief in rebirth of the soul in new bodies can be found in both cultures.
He also took the opportunity to oversee the translation of works from Sanskrit into Arabic, including the Yoga-sūtra and Sāṃkhya-kārikā, two major works of philosophy, as well as scientific works from arabic into Sanskrit. He also knew the Bhagavad Gītā.
So al-Bīrūnī was one of the first scholars to notice the extensive resonances between Greek and Indian philosophy; scholars today still debate whether these resonances are due to historical connections or just separate but parallel forms of thought.
To hear more about the relation of ancient Indian philosophy to ancient Greek philosophy, and about al-Bīrūnī and the reception of Indian philosophy in Islam, see these two episodes of the History of Philosophy in India:

https://historyofphilosophy.net/india-greece 
https://historyofphilosophy.net/india-islam-europe
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