The Committee was named after the great scholar and mathematician Al-Khawarezmi (790 – 850), a cadre (the House of Wisdom) of Caliphate Baghdad, who invented Algorithms in mathematics. Hence the committee was established by The International Statistics Institute ISI (http://isi-web.org/) to honor the contributions made by this scholar to human knowledge. This committee was established by the International Statistical Institute (ISI) to stimulate the international statistical cooperation with countries in the Arabic world.
