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Hardcover In Synchrony with the Heavens, Volume 2 Instruments of Mass Calculation: (Studies X-XVIII) Book

ISBN: 900414188X

ISBN13: 9789004141889

In Synchrony with the Heavens, Volume 2 Instruments of Mass Calculation: (Studies X-XVIII)

This is the first investigation of one of the main interests of astronomy in Islamic civilization, namely, timekeeping by the sun and stars and the regulation of the astronomically-defined times of Muslim prayer. The study is based on over 500 medieval astronomical manuscripts first identified by the author, now preserved in libraries all over the world and originally from the entire Islamic world from the Maghrib to Central Asia and the Yemen. The...

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