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Islamic Astronomy And Geography
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Author : David A. King
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-02-13
Islamic Astronomy And Geography written by David A. King and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-13 with History categories.
This volume of 12 studies, mainly published during the past 15 years, begins with an overview of the Islamic astronomy covering not only sophisticated mathematical astronomy and instrumentation but also simple folk astronomy, and the ways in which astronomy was used in the service of religion. It continues with discussions of the importance of Islamic instruments and scientific manuscript illustrations. Three studies deal with the regional schools that developed in Islamic astronomy, in this case, Egypt and the Maghrib. Another focuses on a curious astrological table for calculating the length of life of any individual. The notion of the world centred on the sacred Kaaba in Mecca inspired both astronomers and proponents of folk astronomy to propose methods for finding the qibla, or sacred direction towards the Kaaba; their activities are surveyed here. The interaction between the mathematical and folk traditions in astronomy is then illustrated by an 11th-century text on the qibla in Transoxania. The last three studies deal with an account of the geodetic measurements sponsored by the Caliph al-Ma'mûn in the 9th century; a world-map in the tradition of the 11th-century polymath al-Bîrûnî, alas corrupted by careless copying; and a table of geographical coordinates from 15th-century Egypt.
Astronomy Geography And Navigation In Islamic Civilization
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Author : Fuat Sezgin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008*
Astronomy Geography And Navigation In Islamic Civilization written by Fuat Sezgin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008* with Astrolabes categories.
Contains many models of instruments collected by the Museum for the History of Islamic Science and Technology in Istanbul.
World Maps For Finding The Direction And Distance To Mecca
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Author : David King
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-09-06
World Maps For Finding The Direction And Distance To Mecca written by David King and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-06 with Philosophy categories.
Two remarkable Iranian world-maps were discovered in 1989 and 1995. Both are made of brass and date from 17th-century Iran. Mecca is at the centre and a highly sophisticated longitude and latitude grid enables the user to determine the direction and distance to Mecca for anywhere in the world between Andalusia and China. Prior to the discovery of these maps it was thought that such cartographic grids were conceived in Europe ca. 1910. This richly-illustrated book presents an overview of the ways in which Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca (qibla) and then describes the two world-maps in detail. The author shows that the geographical data derives from a 15th-century Central Asian source and that the mathematics underlying the grid was developed in 9th-century Baghdad.
Astronomy In The Service Of Islam
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Author : David A. King
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1993
Astronomy In The Service Of Islam written by David A. King and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Delineates the two very different traditions of astronomy in medieval Islam: legal scholars watched the crescent moon to keep the calendar, and used shadows to keep the hours and direction of prayer, while astronomers constructed elaborate theories and mathematical tables to approach ever more precision in times and directions. The articles are reproduced from their original publication in various journals, 1982-91.
The Makers Of Medieval Muslim Geography
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Author : Hasan Askari Kazmi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Makers Of Medieval Muslim Geography written by Hasan Askari Kazmi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Geography categories.
Geography of Central Asia and contributions of Muhạmmad ibn Ahṃad Bīrūnī, 973?-1048, to geographical knowledge.
Astronomy For Landlubbers And Navigators
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Author : David A. King
language : en
Publisher: UC Biblioteca Geral 1
Release Date : 1984
Astronomy For Landlubbers And Navigators written by David A. King and has been published by UC Biblioteca Geral 1 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Astronomia àrab categories.
A History Of Arabic Astronomy
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Author : George Saliba
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1995-07-01
A History Of Arabic Astronomy written by George Saliba and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-07-01 with Religion categories.
A History of Arabic Astronomy is a comprehensive survey of Arabic planetary theories from the eleventh century to the fifteenth century based on recent manuscript discoveries. George Saliba argues that the medieval period, often called a period of decline in Islamic intellectual history, was scientifically speaking, a very productive period in which astronomical theories of the highest order were produced. Based on the most recent manuscript discoveries, this book broadly surveys developments in Arabic planetary theories from the eleventh century to the fifteenth. Taken together, the primary texts and essays assembled in this book reverse traditional beliefs about the rise and fall of Arabic science, demonstrating how the traditional “age of decline” in Arabic science was indeed a “Golden Age” as far as astronomy was concerned. Some of the techniques and mathematical theorems developed during this period were identical to those which were employed by Copernicus in developing his own non-Ptolemaic astronomy. Significantly, this volume will shed much-needed light on the conditions under which such theories were developed in medieval Islam. It clearly demonstrates the distinction that was drawn between astronomical activities and astrological ones, and reveals, contrary to common perceptions about medieval Islam, the accommodation that was obviously reached between religion and astronomy, and the degree to which astronomical planetary theories were supported, and at times even financed, by the religious community itself. This in stark contrast to the systematic attacks leveled by the same religious community against astrology. To students of European intellectual history, the book reveals the technical relationship between the astronomy of the Arabs and that of Copernicus. Saliba’s definitive work will be of particular interest to historians of Arabic science as well as to historians of medieval and Renaissance European science.
Lost Maps Of The Caliphs
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Author : Yossef Rapoport
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-12-11
Lost Maps Of The Caliphs written by Yossef Rapoport and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-11 with History categories.
About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features, and inhabitants. This treatise, known as The Book of Curiosities, was unknown to modern scholars until a remarkable manuscript copy surfaced in 2000. Lost Maps of the Caliphs provides the first general overview of The Book of Curiosities and the unique insight it offers into medieval Islamic thought. Opening with an account of the remarkable discovery of the manuscript and its purchase by the Bodleian Library, the authors use The Book of Curiosities to re-evaluate the development of astrology, geography, and cartography in the first four centuries of Islam. Their account assesses the transmission of Late Antique geography to the Islamic world, unearths the logic behind abstract maritime diagrams, and considers the palaces and walls that dominate medieval Islamic plans of towns and ports. Early astronomical maps and drawings demonstrate the medieval understanding of the structure of the cosmos and illustrate the pervasive assumption that almost any visible celestial event had an effect upon life on Earth. Lost Maps of the Caliphs also reconsiders the history of global communication networks at the turn of the previous millennium. It shows the Fatimid Empire, and its capital Cairo, as a global maritime power, with tentacles spanning from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus Valley and the East African coast. As Lost Maps of the Caliphs makes clear, not only is The Book of Curiosities one of the greatest achievements of medieval mapmaking, it is also a remarkable contribution to the story of Islamic civilization that opens an unexpected window to the medieval Islamic view of the world.
A Commentary Upon B R N S Kit B Ta D D Al Am Kin
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Author : Edward Stewart Kennedy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
A Commentary Upon B R N S Kit B Ta D D Al Am Kin written by Edward Stewart Kennedy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Eleventh century categories.
Islamic Mathematical Astronomy
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Author : David A. King
language : en
Publisher: Variorum Publishing
Release Date : 1986
Islamic Mathematical Astronomy written by David A. King and has been published by Variorum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Science categories.