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Astronomy in the Service of Islam (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Astronomy in the Service of Islam (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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Based on a wide variety of previously unstudied sources, these
articles explain how science was applied to three aspects of
Islamic ritual in the Middle Ages: the regulation of the lunar
calendar; the organisation of the times of the five daily prayers;
and the determination of the sacred direction (qibla) towards the
Kaaba in Mecca. Simple procedures of folk astronomy were used by
the scholars of religious law who determined popular practice; more
complicated mathematical methods were provided by the scientists -
and this proved a powerful incentive for the development of
scientific analysis and research. Some of these procedures were to
have far-reaching consequences. For example, the astronomical
alignment of the Kaaba - known to various medieval writers, but
long forgotten - led to the adoption of similar alignments for the
qibla, and the final articles show how these were calculated,
whether from astronomical observation or geographical computation,
and their impact on the orientation of religious and secular
architecture across the Islamic world. C'est A partir d'une grande
diversite de sources inexplorees que ces articles expliquent
comment la science avait ete appliquee a trois aspects du rituel
islamique au Moyen Age: la regulation du calendrier lunaire;
l'organisation des heures assignees aux cinq prieres quotidiennes;
et l'etablissement de la direction sacree (qibla) vers la Kaaba de
la Mecque. Des procedes simples d'astronomie populaire etaient
utilises par les erudits en droit religieux qui decidaient de la
pratique populaire; des methodes mathematiques plus complexes
etaient offertes par les hommes de science - ce qui, en effet,
s'avera Atre une motivation puissante dans le developpement de
l'analyse et de la recherche scientifique. Certains de ces procedes
eurent des consequences d'une grande portee par la suite.
L'alignement astronomique de la Kaaba - pour ne reprendre qu'un
exemple connu
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