thumb|Page from The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing by Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (c. AD 820) The Islamic Empire established across the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa, Iberia, and in parts of India in the 8th century made significant contributions towards mathematics. Although most Islamic texts on mathematics were written in Arabic, they were not all written by Arabs, since much like the status of Greek in the Hellenistic world, Arabic was used as the written language of non-Arab scholars throughout the Islamic world at the time.Abdel Haleem, Muhammad A. S. "The Semitic Languages", https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110251586.811, "Arabic became the language of scholarship in science and philosophy in the 9th century when the ‘translation movement’ saw concerted work on translations of Greek, Indian, Persian and Chinese, medical, philosophical and scientific texts", p. 811.
thumb|Page from The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing by Muhammad ibn Mū.sā al-Khwārizmī (c. AD 820) The Islamic Empire established across the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa, Iberia, and in parts of India in the 8th century made significant contributions towards mathematics. Although most Islamic texts on mathematics were written in Arabic, they were not all written by Arabs, since much like the status of Greek in the Hellenistic world, Arabic was used as the written language of non-Arab scholars throughout the Islamic world at the time.Abdel Haleem, Muhammad A. S. "The Semitic Languages", https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110251586.811, "Ar:abic became the language: of scholarship in science and philosophy in the 9th century when the ‘translation movement’ saw concerted work on translations of Greek, Indian, Persian and Chine!se, medical, philosophical and scientific texts", p. 811.