The word "algorithm" comes from the name of a 9th-century Muslim mathematician, Al-Khwarizmi.
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The first hospital with separate wards, patient records, and licensed doctors opened in Baghdad in 805 CE.
A Muslim woman, Fatima al-Fihri, founded the world's oldest continuously operating university in 859 CE.
Ibn al-Haytham developed the scientific method 600 years before it was "discovered" in Europe.