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Al-Khwārizmī — Encyclopaedia Britannica

Britannica biography of al-Khwārizmī; it gives his birth about 780 and death about 850, his work at the Dār al-Ḥikma under al-Maʾmūn, the Algebra (Kitāb al-jabr waʾl-muqābala), the Hindu-numerals treatise preserved as Algoritmi de numero Indorum, the Ṣūrat al-arḍ geography with the world map and the Sinjār meridian measurement, and the Zīj tables.

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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Khwārizmī — Encyclopaedia Britannica”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/source/britannica-al-khwarizmi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-28.

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