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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 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 Wisdom in ...
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-Tabari ...
Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. al-ʿAbbās al-Khwarizmi (934 – Nishapur, 1002) was a poet and writer in the Arabic language.He gained patronage variously in the courts of Aleppo (with Sayf al-Dawla), Bukhara (with vizier Abu Ali Bal'ami ), Nishapur (praising its emir, Ahmad al-Mikali), Sijistan (under Tahir ibn Muhammad), Gharchistan, and Arrajan (with Sahib ibn Abbad).
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.
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, whose full name was Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥusayn (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن عمر بن الحسين), was born in 1149 or 1150 CE (543 or 544 AH) in Ray (close to modern Tehran), whence his nisba al-Razi. [12] According to Ibn al-Shaʿʿār al-Mawṣilī (died 1256), one of al ...
The two-horned one. Silver tetradrachmon (ancient Greek coin) issued in the name of Alexander the Great, depicting Alexander with the horns of Ammon-Ra (242/241 BC, posthumous issue). Displayed at the British Museum. The literal translation of the Arabic phrase "Dhu al-Qarnayn," as written in the Quran, is "the Two-Horned man."
Atsiz ibn Uwaq. Atsiz ibn Uwaq al-Khwarizmi, also known as al-Aqsis, Atsiz ibn Uvaq, Atsiz ibn Oq and Atsiz ibn Abaq (died October 1079), was a Turkoman mercenary commander who established a principality in Palestine and southern Syria after seizing these from the Fatimid Caliphate in 1071.
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]