Somehow it feels very odd to me than an Arab would have invented algebra!
 

 FWIW, from Wikipedia:
 

 Regarding al-Khwārizmī's religion, Toomer writes:
 Another epithet given to him by al-Ṭabarī, "al-Majūsī," would seem to indicate 
that he was an adherent of the old Zoroastrian religion 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism. This would still have been 
possible at that time for a man of Iranian origin, but the pious preface to 
al-Khwārizmī's Algebrashows that he was an orthodox Muslim 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim, so al-Ṭabarī's epithet could mean no more 
than that his forebears, and perhaps he in his youth, had been 
Zoroastrians.[22] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi#cite_note-toomer-24

 

 If that's true, al-Khwaarizmii would have been closer to Vedic philosophy than 
to Islaam, now wouldn't he??
 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi

 

 

 

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