Eighth to the Sixteenth Century - Rashid Islamic Center

Facets of the Islam and Science Relationship • 51al-Maghribi al-Samawal (fl. twelfth century) introduced them withina theory of numbers, though still without naming the device. By theearly fifteenth century, decimal fractions had received both a nameand a systematic exposition, as we see in the work of Jamshid al-Kashi,an extraordinary mathematician and astronomer who later joinedthe team of astronomers and mathematicians that had gathered inStatue of al-Khwarizmi (ca. 847) in Samarqand,Uzbekistan. Al-Khwarizmi’s book al-Jabr wa’l Muqablainaugurated the science of algebra. He made many originalcontributions in geography, mathematics, and astronomy..