@ Anon
Your whole blah blah with William is about Mayans, Sumerians, Indians, Arabs ... but ethnicity doesn't mater to you when you are wrong. Avicenna was trained in Isphahan, khayyam was trained in Nishapour, Razi was trained in Rey and again the list goes on. So according to your argument (the place of training) these are not Arab scientists. The same nonsense goes into other subjects like "Islamic Art", "Islamic science" and these days "Islamic cinema" and even "Islamic pornography". The fact that we bomb the Midde East and we do other atrocities does not change the rules of mathematics. When Americans learn that all Middle Easterners are not Muslems or Arabs and all Musems are not Arabs? I don't know.
Another one. Tussi means from the city of Tus (Tous). Tussi was not an Arab and the Arabic "Al" has nothing to do with this city and this mathematician. Do your homework and find out where the city is.
Beside, why people relate everything to religion in the Middle-East? Do we refer Galileo, Newton, Pasteur, ... as Christian scientists?
This nonsense goes on for decades and people repeat it over and over again without trying to see, once and for all, where the names Khwarizmi (and not arabized Al-Khwarizmi), Khayyam (and not arabized Al-Khayyam who was another major mathematician) come from. Beside these two are not exceptions the same nonsense is related to many other non-Arab scientists like Razi (not Al-Razi) and Avicenna... and the list goes on.
It is easy these days to check few encyclopedias to find out. The confusion is related to these scientists because they wrote in Arabic which was the "Lingua franca" of the time. Saying all that, yes they were Muslims but not Arabs.
@ Anon
Your whole blah blah with William is about Mayans, Sumerians, Indians, Arabs ... but ethnicity doesn't mater to you when you are wrong. Avicenna was trained in Isphahan, khayyam was trained in Nishapour, Razi was trained in Rey and again the list goes on. So according to your argument (the place of training) these are not Arab scientists. The same nonsense goes into other subjects like "Islamic Art", "Islamic science" and these days "Islamic cinema" and even "Islamic pornography". The fact that we bomb the Midde East and we do other atrocities does not change the rules of mathematics. When Americans learn that all Middle Easterners are not Muslems or Arabs and all Musems are not Arabs? I don't know.
Another one. Tussi means from the city of Tus (Tous). Tussi was not an Arab and the Arabic "Al" has nothing to do with this city and this mathematician. Do your homework and find out where the city is.
Beside, why people relate everything to religion in the Middle-East? Do we refer Galileo, Newton, Pasteur, ... as Christian scientists?
This nonsense goes on for decades and people repeat it over and over again without trying to see, once and for all, where the names Khwarizmi (and not arabized Al-Khwarizmi), Khayyam (and not arabized Al-Khayyam who was another major mathematician) come from. Beside these two are not exceptions the same nonsense is related to many other non-Arab scientists like Razi (not Al-Razi) and Avicenna... and the list goes on.
It is easy these days to check few encyclopedias to find out. The confusion is related to these scientists because they wrote in Arabic which was the "Lingua franca" of the time. Saying all that, yes they were Muslims but not Arabs.