Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (died ca. 850) was a Moslem mathematician, astronomer, and geographer and one of the most seminal scientific minds of early Islamic culture. Al-Khwarizmi flourished at the court of the Abbasid caliph al-Mamun (reigned...

Believed to have been born about a.d. 780 in the country of Khwarizm, (now the Uzbeki city of Khiva), al-Khwarizmi (also spelled al-Khowarizmi) played an influential role in the history of mathematics and particularly algebra. Although much of...

c. 780-c. 850 Arab Mathematician and Astronomer Although al-Khwarizmi was an early Arab proponent of the use of Hindu numerals—which were eventually adopted so widely throughout the Middle East that they came to be known as Arabic...

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī was a Persian[1] Islamic mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born around 780 in Khwārizm[2] (now Khiva, Uzbekistan) and died around 850. He worked most of his life as a scholar in the House...

I do not- wa-lil-ah al-hamd- conform to any particular sufi order or faqih, nor follow the course of any speculative theologian (mutakalim) or any other Imam for that matter, not even such dignitaries as ibn al-Qayyim, al-Dhahabi, or ibn Kathar, I summon only God,...

The appearance at last of this long-awaited volume is an event of considerable significance to students of medieval Arabic literature. The art of the Arabic shadow play, in which articulated cut-out figures, sometimes very elaborate ones, were held against the back of a...