Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsỳ al-Ḫwārizmī al-Majūsī

PERSON

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Khwārizmī al-Majūsī

Name (arabic)	أبو عبد الله محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي المجوسي
Name (translit)	Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Khwārizmī al-Majūsī
Alias	Khwārizmī Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al‐Khwārizmī
Flourished	173H/790J
Lived in	Khwārizm Baghdad
Notes	Al-Khwārizmī was a well‐known astronomer and mathematician who flourished in the late 8th/early 9th centuries in Baghdad. He worked in the ʿAbbāsid courts of the caliphs al-Maʾmūn (830-33), al-Muʿtaṣim (833-42), and al-Wāthiq (842-47). The word “algorithm” was derived from the nisba of his name.
Number in MAMS	41
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Khwarizmi_BEA.htm
ismi_id	106357

Authored Works

1 works:

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Kitāb ikhtiṣār al-majisṭī , كتاب اختصار المجسطي

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