Women in the cult, which they called “The Church”, filled their homes with ancient Egyptian idolatry and wore Eye of Horus ...

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It didn't even get its name until medieval times, and that was thanks to the ninth-­century Persian mathematician Muhammed ibn-­Mūsā (al-­)Khwārizmī… He studied at Caliph al-­Ma’mūn’s pioneering ...