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Multiple choice history the turkish invaders advent of islam emergence of new kingdom in north india turkish invaders

Who among the following came to India at the instance of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni?

  1. AI-Masudi

  2. AI-Biruni

  3. Sulaiman

  4. Abdul Haq
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B Correct answer
Explanation
Al- Biruni was an Iranian Scholar, historian, chronologist, and linguist. He spent a large part of his life in Gazhni in modern day Afghanistan. In 1017 he came to India at the instance of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni.
Multiple choice history the turkish invaders advent of islam emergence of new kingdom in north india turkish invaders

The scholar who had accompanied with Mohammed of Ghazni to India was ___________.

  1. Al-Raza

  2. Ibn-Batuta

  3. Al-Beruni

  4. Al-Firdausi
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Al-Beruni was born in 973, in Khwarizm in present-day Uzbekistan. In 1017, when Sultan Mahmud invaded Khwarizm, he took several scholars and poets back to his capital, Ghazni. Al-Biruni was one of them. Al-Biruni had accompanied with Muhammad of Ghazni to India.