section_path: Philosophy/Al-Biruni correspondence
section_name: Al-Biruni correspondence
paragraph_text: Al-Biruni correspondence
  
  Correspondence between ibn Sina with his student Ahmad ibn ʿAli al-Maʿsumi and al-Biruni has survived in which they debated Aristotelian natural philosophy and the Peripatetic school. al-Biruni began by asking eighteen questions, ten of which were criticisms of Aristotle's On the Heavens.