khwarizmi being persian original research which has nothing to do with wikipedia let's look into the persians' claims shall we zmmz lists merriam webster with this quote function biographical name circa circa muhammad ibn musa al khwarizmi islamic persian born mathematician astronomer one of the greatest scientific minds of islam source of much of mathematical knowledge of medieval europe notice it says persian born 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 it's part of the uzbegistan nation state alas persians burnt us saying that it's in fact persian so let's 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 or original research which is against wiki's policy see wp nor a troll showed up lately and claimed that arabs are fighting a losing battle i'm not sure we're in a battle field here but i got the gist he thinks we have no sources poor little guy sources that state he's explicitly an arab who's losing the battle now i wonder