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This source book provides new information about a much neglected aspect of the scientific tradition of the Islamic Middle Ages, focusing on folk astronomy and its relations to religious duties (determination of the times of Muslim prayer and the direction towards the Kaaba in Mecca (Arabic "qibla")).

Produktbeschreibung
This source book provides new information about a much neglected aspect of the scientific tradition of the Islamic Middle Ages, focusing on folk astronomy and its relations to religious duties (determination of the times of Muslim prayer and the direction towards the Kaaba in Mecca (Arabic "qibla")).
Autorenporträt
Petra G. Schmidl is Research Assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. After studying history, ethnology, physics, and history of science, her major research interests are in the field of astronomy in medieval Islamic culture, folk astronomy and astronomical instrumentation in East and West.