EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Born in Buzjan, Nishapur in 940 C.E. He flourished as a great mathematician and astronomer at Baghdad and died in 997/998 C.E. He learnt mathematics in Baghdad . In 959 C.E. he migrated to Iraq and lived there till his death.

Detailed explanation-2: -Al-Asmai was a philologist who made important contributions to zoology, Botany and animal husbandry. He was born in BASRAH. He was a disciple of Amr Ibn al’ala, and was a tutor to Harun Rashid’s son . Al-Asmai is considered as first Muslim scientist who contributed to Zoology, Botany and Animal Husbandry .

Detailed explanation-3: -The most consequential of Abd al-Malik’s reforms were the introduction of a single Islamic currency in place of Byzantine and Sasanian coinage and the establishment of Arabic as the language of the bureaucracy in place of Greek and Persian in Syria and Iraq, respectively.