the muslims goal was to transmit their beliefs of islam throughout the world.
islam 1200 AD
muslim general salah al- kin- ayyubi in egypt ended the christian crusades. muslim control of spain was reduced to the kingdom of granada
literature
Shahnameh:
the shahnameh is a long epic poem written by the persian poet ferdowsi between 977 Nx 1010 A.D. and is the national epic of iran and related societies
book of one thousand and one night:
widely known worldwide as nights of arabia. includes the legends of alladin.
al khwarizmi:
its pronounced in classical arabi as al khwarizmi hence the latin translation
in the 12th century latin translation of his work on the indian numeral introduced the decimal positional number system of the western world
he was born in a persian family
al khwarizmi contribtutions to mathematics were geography astronomy these were all basis for innovation in algebra and trigonmetry
Astronomy
he made the astronomucal tables of sing and hind.
the tables consisted of 37 chapters
trigonmetry
the sin hind also contained tables for the trigonometric functions of shines and cosine
geography
third major worj is his book on the appearance of the earth. the book was finished in 833
al-jabr
algebra is related to the mathmatics but for historical reasons but the word algebra has three meanings as a bare word
algebra means the use of letter and symbols to represnt values
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