Death at Ghazni
· Ghazni, Afghanistan

Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication · file The canonical English Wikipedia biography records al-Biruni's death at Ghazni on this date. Other scholarly accounts report uncertainty and have proposed a different day in December 1048. The exact death date is disputed: Encyclopaedia Iranica notes uncertainty and reports a proposed date of 11 December 1048.