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Not an Arab

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Submitted by Parg (United Arab Emirates), Mar 5, 2009 at 05:06

Please- Khwarazmi was not an ARAB- He was Iranian- he wrote for the abbasid caliph in Arabic because arabic was the lingua franca of the administration. Still Khwarazmi was Iranian

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