Who Was Alive

Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer

Born c. AD 780 · died c. AD 850

Who was alive at the same time as Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi?

  1. Jabir ibn Hayyan
  2. Charlemagne
  3. Abu Nuwas
  4. Harun al-Rashid
  5. Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
  6. Ādi Shankara
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Born during Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi’s lifetime: Ādi Shankara.

Not quite contemporaries: Du Fu died 7 years before Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was born, Abu Bakr al-Razi was born 13 years after Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi died and Abū Ḥanīfa died 10 years before Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was born.

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