Tablas astronomicas de al-khwarizmi biography

This webpage is dedicated to the medieval mathematican and astronomer Muhammad ibn Musa (al-)Khwarizmi (or Kharazmi), who is mainly known for his treatise on algebra and his text on Hindu-Arabic numerals.

In the process of the transmission of this text to the West, his name was garbled to "algorism" and further to "algorithm".

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Al-Khwarizmi was also an important astronomer. In this webpage we provide information on his original works in Arabic, and on modern translations of his original works, for the benefit of those who want to read his works as close as possible to the original.

We have added scans of sources which are not in copyright (if one of these sources is in copyright we ask the publisher to let us know so we can remove the file immediately).

The page is structured in the same way as our webpage on www.albiruni.nl.

The works will be listed and for each work we give editions of the Arabic