Other influential thinkers include the Persiansal-FarabiandAvicenna(Ibn Sīnā), as well as the SpaniardAverroës(Ibn Rushd), whose interpretations ofAristotlewere taken up by both Jewish and Christian thinkers. When the Arabs dominatedAndalusian Spain, the Arabic philosophic literature was translated ...
They clearly show the deep chasm between the two systems of mathematical thought, in algebra as well as in geometry."95 As to the relationships between Babylonian algebra and the algebras of Diophantos and Al-Khwârazmî, Gandz says, "Both, Al-Khwârazmî and Diophantos, drew from ...
origin=JSTOR-pdf. Also see Hermann Landolt, Introduction toParadise of Submission: A Medieval Treatise on Ismaili Thought, by Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī, ed. and trans. S. J. Badakhchani (London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2005). These scholars bel...