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that fondness for science… has encouraged me to compose a short work on hisab al-javrw’almuqavala, confirming it to what is easiest and most useful in the arithmetic, such as men constantly require in cases of inheritance, legacies, partition, lawsuits[all based on the qur’an], the measuring of lands, the digging of canals, and geometrical computations.”
based on the context clues, this quote can be attributed to
ibn sina
al-razi
al-khwarizmi
muhammad