al-Biruni
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Hou Gay, Can You Give Us Some Idea of the Structure of the Book?
He'san is essentially about hindooism. He says nothing about buddhism, which was effectively extinct. It's described as of anthropology, but it's only in a certain sense that it's about the religious and intellectual life of the hindoos. If you want to find out what sort of houses they lived in, what they et, what they wore and so on, then he's very eloquent about that. And he's particularly interested as well in how, as it were, hinduism compared with greek ideas of s and widows. There is two families in the same house. Soi am cross cultural. Soto interrupted. Hou gay, can you give
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