Khwarizmi being Persian Original research which has nothing to do with Wikipedia   Lets look into the Persians claims shall we  Zmmz lists MerriamWebster with this quote Function biographical name circa circa  Muhammad ibn MusA alKhwArizmI Islamic Persianborn mathematician  astronomer one of the greatest scientific minds of Islam source of much of mathematical knowledge of medieval Europe   Notice it says Persianborn in parantheses and gives Islamic as the nationality Basically they defined him by religion and stated his place of birth He was born in Khwarizm in the Khorasan province At the time of his birth it was part of the Arab Islamic Caliphate now its part of the Uzbegistan nationstate Alas Persians burnt us saying that its in fact Persian so lets take it as Persian Now according to sources cited by Heja Helwada Khorasan in general had a huge Arab population In accordance to that defining him as Persian simply because he was born in Khorasan is not only disputed at best it also constitutes ORoriginal research which is against Wikis policy see WPNOR  A troll showed up lately and claimed that Arabs are fighting a losing battle Im not sure were in a battlefield here but I got the gist he thinks we have no sourcespoor little guy  Sources that state hes explicitly an Arab  httpwwwbartlebycomalAlKhowarhtml  httpukencartamsncomtextKhwarizmialhtml  httpwwwbritannicacomebiarticle  Whos losing the battle now I wonder