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Al-Khwarizmi. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi[note 1] (Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850), or simply al-Khwarizmi, was a Khwarazm -born polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820 CE, he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the House of ...
Under the direction of al-Ma'mun, the Banū Mūsā worked with the most talented men available, including al-Khwarizmi, al-Kindi, Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, and the mathematician and translator Hunayn ibn Ishaq, who became a close friend of one of the brothers, Muhammad. [4] Of the translators, three were paid about 500 dinars a month ...
Al-Kindi was born in Kufa to an aristocratic family of the Arabian tribe of the Kinda, descended from the chieftain al-Ash'ath ibn Qays, a contemporary of Muhammad. [19] The family belonged to the most prominent families of the tribal nobility of Kufa in the early Islamic period, until it lost much of its power following the revolt of Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath. [20]
Al-Ghazali was born in c. 1058 in Tus, then part of the Seljuk Empire. [50] He was a Muslim scholar, law specialist, rationalist, and spiritualist of Persian descent. [51][52] He was born in Tabaran, a town in the district of Tus, Khorasan (now part of Iran), [50] not long after Seljuks entered Baghdad and ended Shia Buyid Amir al-umaras.
Life. Al-Khwarazmi is a somewhat obscure figure. [2] He was born in 935 in Khwarazm, the birthplace of his father. His mother was a native of Amol in Tabaristan. [1] He periodically refers to himself as al-Khwarazmi or al-Tabari, while other sources refer to him as al-Tabarkhazmi or al-Tabarkhazi. [1] Al-Khwarizmi may have been a nephew of al ...
Al-Biruni. Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni / ælbɪˈruːni / (Persian: ابوریحان بیرونی; Arabic: أبو الريحان البيروني; 973 – after 1050), [5] known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously "Father of Comparative Religion ...
A page from al-Khwarizmi's Kitab al-Jabr. Drawing of Self trimming lamp in Ahmad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir's treatise on mechanical devices. Al-Idrisi's map of the world (12th). Note South is on top. Besides their translations of earlier works and their commentaries on them, scholars at the Bayt al-Ḥikma produced important original research.
Abu Kamil made important contributions to algebra and geometry. [4] He was the first Islamic mathematician to work easily with algebraic equations with powers higher than (up to ), [3][5] and solved sets of non-linear simultaneous equations with three unknown variables. [6] He illustrated the rules of signs for expanding the multiplication . [7]