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

Lived in

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

ismi_id

106357

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