In synchrony with the heavens Volume 1, The call of the muezzin / : Studies in astronomical timekeeping and instrumentation in medieval Islamic civilization.

By: King, D.AMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2003Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (987 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789047401025Subject(s): Astronomy -- Islamic countries -- History | Astronomy, Medieval | Islam and science | Time (Islamic law)Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: In synchrony with the heavens Volume 1, The call of the muezzin / : Studies in astronomical timekeeping and instrumentation in medieval Islamic civilization.DDC classification: 520/.917/67 LOC classification: QB23 -- .K56 2004ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface 1 -- Preface 2 -- Statement on previous publication of parts of this work -- Bibliography and bibliographical abbreviations -- Part I A survey of tables for timekeeping by the sun and stars -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Chapter 1: On Islamic tables for timekeeping -- 1.0 Introductory remarks -- 1.1 Notation used in the analysis -- 1.2 The standard medieval formulae for timekeeping -- 1.3 Classification of subject matter -- 1.4 The format of the tables -- 1.5 Recomputation of tables -- Chapter 2: Tables of time as a function of solar and stellar altitude -- 2.0 Introductory remarks -- 2.1 Tables of time as a function of instantaneous solar altitude and solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 2.1.1 Ibn Yūnus / al-Maqsī / Ibn al-Kattānī / al-Bakhāniqī: Cairo -- 2.1.2 Abu 'l-Uqūl: Taiz -- 2.1.3 al-Mizzī: Damascus -- 2.1.4 al-Khalīlī: Damascus -- 2.1.5 Ibn al-Rashīdī (?): Jerusalem -- 2.1.6 Anonymous: Alexandria -- 2.1.7 Ahmad Efendī: Istanbul -- 2.1.8 al-Kutubī: Cairo -- 2.2 Tables of time as a function of solar longitude and instantaneous altitude for a given latitude -- 2.2.1 al-Karakī: Jerusalem -- 2.2.2 Anonymous: Edirne -- 2.2.3 Sālih Efendī: Istanbul -- 2.2.4 Husayn Husnī: Mecca -- 2.2.5 al-Tantāwī: Damascus -- 2.2.6 Anonymous: Jerusalem -- 2.3 Tables of time as a function of meridian altitude and instantaneous altitude, for a specific latitude -- 2.3.1 Alī ibn Amājūr: Baghdad -- 2.3.2 al-Tūsī: Maragha -- 2.3.3 Anonymous: Shiraz -- 2.3.4 Anonymous: unspecified locality (Iran) -- 2.3.5 Anonymous: Tunis -- 2.3.6 Taqi 'l-Dīn: Istanbul -- 2.3.7 Anonymous: Edirne (?) -- 2.4 Tables of time as a function of stellar altitude, for a specific latitude -- 2.4.1 Anonymous: Tunis -- 2.5 Tables of time since sunrise as a function of meridian altitude and instantaneous altitude, for all latitudes.
2.5.1 Alī ibn Amājūr (Baghdad) -- 2.5.2 Anonymous (Baghdad / Damascus) -- 2.5.3 Anonymous (Yemen) -- 2.6 Tables of the time since rising of the sun or fixed stars as a function of their altitude, for all latitudes -- 2.6.1 Najm al-Dīn al-Misrī (Cairo) -- 2.7 Tables of the time of night as a function of the normed right ascensions of culminating stars and the solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 2.7.1 Shihāb al-Dīn al-Halabī: Damascus -- 2.7.2 Muhammad ibn Kātib Sinān: Istanbul -- 2.8 Tables of the time of night as a function of the longitude of the horoscopus, for a specific latitude -- 2.8.1 Anonymous: Istanbul -- 2.8.2 Muhammad Zamān Mashhadī: Meshed -- 2.8.3 Anonymous: unspecified locality -- Chapter 3: Tables of the longitude of the horoscopus as a function of solar and stellar altitude -- 3.0 Introductory remarks -- 3.1 Tables of the longitude of the horoscopus as a function of the instantaneous solar altitude and solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 3.1.1 Abu 'l-'Uqūl: Taiz -- 3.2 Tables of the longitude of the horoscopus as a function of stellar altitude, for a specific latitude -- 3.2.1 Anonymous: Qandahar -- 3.2.2 Anonymous: Baghdad / Damascus -- 3.2.3 Ibn Dāir: Sanaa -- 3.3 Tables of the longitude of the horoscopus as a function of time and solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 3.3.1 al-Sultān al-Ashraf: Sanaa -- 3.3.2 Abu 'l-'Uqū: Taiz -- 3.3.3 Anonymous: Anatolia -- 3.4 Tables of the longitude of the horoscopus as a function of the time since rising of the stars, for a specific latitude -- 3.4.1 Ibn Dāir: Sanaa -- Chapter 4: Tables of solar and stellar altitude -- 4.0 Introductory remarks -- 4.1 Tables of solar altitude at the solstices as a function of time, for a specific latitude -- 4.1.1 Pseudo-al-Khwārizmī / Habash: various latitudes -- 4.1.2 al-Battānī: Raqqa -- 4.1.3 al-Maqsī and al-Marrākushī: various latitudes.
4.1.4 al-Sulān al-Ashraf: Yemen and Hejaz -- 4.1.5 Anonymous: Istanbul -- 4.2 Tables of solar altitude as a function of time since sunrise and solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 4.2.1 Anonymous: Baghdad -- 4.2.2 Anonymous: Baghdad -- 4.2.3 Saīd ibn Khafīf al-Samarqandī or Ibn al-Ādāmī: Baghdad -- 4.2.4 al-Marrākushī: Cairo -- 4.2.5 al-Sultān al-Ashraf: Sanaa -- 4.2.6 Abu 'l-Uqūl: Taiz -- 4.2.7 Najm al-Dīn al-Misrī: 4th climate (?) -- 4.3 Tables of solar altitude as a function of time since sunrise and meridian altitude, for all latitudes -- 4.3.1 Anonymous (Baghdad) -- 4.3.1* Muhyi 'l-Dīn al-Maghribī (?) (Maragha) -- 4.3.2 al-Marrākushī (Cairo) -- 4.3.3 Anonymous (Yemen) -- 4.3.4 Anonymous (Yemen) -- 4.3.5 al-Sālihī (?) (Damascus) -- 4.3.6 Husayn Qusa (?) (Tunis) -- 4.3.7 Zacuto (?) (Salamanca) / Anonymous (Yemen) -- 4.4 Tables of solar altitude as a function of the semi diurnal arc and the time since sunrise -- 4.4.1 Najm al-Dīn al-Misrī (?): Cairo -- 4.5 Tables of stellar altitude as a function of the longitude of the horoscopus, for a specific latitude -- 4.5.1 Abu 'l-Uqūl: Taiz -- 4.6 Tables of stellar altitude as a function of time of night, for a specific latitude -- 4.6.1 Ibn Dāir: Sanaa -- 4.7 Tables of solar altitudes in certain azimuths as a function of solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 4.7.1 Ibn Yūnus: Cairo -- 4.8 Tables of solar altitude in the prime vertical, for a specific latitude -- 4.8.1 Ibn Yūnus: Cairo -- 4.8.2 al-Mizzī: Damascus -- 4.8.3 al-Khalīlī: Damascus -- 4.8.4 Anonymous: Cairo -- 4.8.5 al-Asyūtī: Assiut -- 4.8.6 al-Mahallī: Damietta -- 4.8.7 al-Dīstī: Lattakia -- 4.8.8 Anonymous: Alexandria -- 4.8.9 Yūsuf Kilārjī: Crete -- 4.8.10 Anonymous: Nablus -- Chapter 5: Tables of solar azimuth -- 5.0 Introductory remarks.
5.1 Tables of solar azimuth as a function of solar altitude and solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 5.1.1 Ibn Yūnus: Cairo -- 5.1.2 Shihāb al-Dīn al-Halabī: Damascus -- 5.1.3 Anonymous: Alexandria -- 5.1.4 Anonymous: Damietta (?) -- 5.2 Tables of solar azimuth as a function of solar longitude and solar altitude, for a specific latitude -- 5.2.1 Anonymous: Cairo -- 5.3 Tables of solar azimuth as a function of meridian altitude and instantaneous altitude -- 5.3.1 al-Khalīlī (Damascus) -- 5.4 Tables of solar azimuth as a function of time and solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 5.4.1 Pseudo-al-Khwārizmī (Habash): various latitudes -- 5.4.2 al-Battānī: Raqqa -- 5.4.3 Ibn al-Ādāmī or Saīd ibn Khafīf al-Samarqandī: Baghdad -- 5.4.4 al-Maqsī: Cairo -- 5.4.5 al-Marrākushī: Cairo -- 5.4.6 al-Sultān al-Ashraf -- 5.5 Tables of solar azimuth at the equinoxes as a function of time, for a specific latitude -- 5.5.1 Anonymous: Cairo -- 5.5.2 Ibn Abi 'l-Fath al-Sūfī: all latitudes -- 5.6 Tables of solar rising amplitude, for a specific latitude -- 5.6.1 Anonymous: Baghdad -- 5.6.2 Ibn Yūnus: Cairo -- 5.6.3 Muhyi 'l-Dīn al-Maghribī: Maragha -- 5.6.4 al-Marrākushī: Cairo -- 5.6.5 al-Mizzī: Damascus -- 5.6.6 al-Khalīlī: Damascus -- 5.6.7 Anonymous: Tunis -- 5.6.8 Anonymous: Isfahan -- 5.6.9 Miscellaneous: Cairo -- 5.6.10 al-Asyūtī: Assiut -- 5.6.11 al-Dīstī: Lattakia -- 5.6.12 Anonymous: Alexandria -- 5.6.13 Yūsuf Kilārjī: Crete -- 5.7 Tables of rising amplitude as a function of declination, for a specific latitude -- 5.7.1 Anonymous: Cairo -- 5.8 Tables of maximum solar rising amplitude as a function of latitude -- 5.8.1 al-Battānī (Raqqa) -- 5.8.2 Abu 'l-Wafā (Baghdad) -- 5.8.3 Sanjar al-Kamālī (Shiraz) -- Chapter 6: Tables of auxiliary functions for timekeeping -- 6.0 Introductory remarks -- 6.1 Tables of the sine of the solar declination.
6.1.1 Anonymous (Baghdad?) -- 6.1.2 al-Khalīlī (Damascus) -- 6.1.3 Ridwān Efendī (Cairo) -- 6.1.4 Taqi 'l-Dīn (Istanbul) -- 6.2 Tables of the cosine of the solar declination -- 6.2.1 Habash (Baghdad / Damascus) -- 6.2.2 Anonymous (Baghdad ?) -- 6.2.3 Abū Nasr (Khwarizm) -- 6.2.4 Anonymous (Cairo) -- 6.2.5 Anonymous (Tunis) -- 6.2.6 Ridwān Efendī (Cairo) -- 6.2.7 Abdallāh al-Halabī (?) (Aleppo) -- 6.3 Tables of the sine of the meridian altitude, for a specific latitude -- 6.3.1 al-Khatāī (Cairo) -- 6.3.2 al-Khalīlī: Damascus -- 6.3.3 Anonymous: Tunis -- 6.3.4 Anonymous: Tlemcen -- 6.3.5 Anonymous: Aleppo -- 6.4 Tables of the absolute base for timekeeping by the sun, for a specific latitude -- 6.4.1 al-Nasawī: Rayy -- 6.4.1* al-Baghdādī (?): Baghdad -- 6.4.1** Early anonymous: N. Iran -- 6.4.2 al-Khatāī: Cairo -- 6.4.3 Anonymous: Cairo -- 6.4.4 Anonymous: Mecca -- 6.4.5 Sanjar al-Kamālī: Shiraz -- 6.4.6 Anonymous: Anatolia -- 6.4.7 Anonymous: Tunis -- 6.4.8 Taqi 'l-Dīn: Istanbul -- 6.4.9 Anonymous: Istanbul -- 6.4.10 al-Dīstī: Lattakia -- 6.4.11 al-Jannād: various localities in the Western Maghrib -- 6.4.12 al-Mahallī: Damietta -- 6.4.13 Anonymous: Alexandria -- 6.4.14 Yūsuf Kilārjī: Crete -- 6.4.15 Anonymous: Tlemcen -- 6.4.16 Anonymous: Sfax -- 6.4.17 Sālih Efendī: Istanbul -- 6.4.18 Anonymous: Istanbul -- 6.4.19 Abdallāh al-Halabī (?): Aleppo -- 6.4.20 al-Alamī: Fez -- 6.5 Tables for marking the absolute base on trigonometric quadrants -- 6.5.1 al-Khalīlī: Damascus -- 6.5.2 Anonymous: Istanbul -- 6.5.2* Anonymous: Maghrib -- 6.6 Tables of the absolute base for timekeeping by the stars -- 6.7 Tables of the reciprocal of the absolute base and related functions for timekeeping by the sun -- 6.7.1 Anonymous: Cairo -- 6.7.2 al-Marrākushī: Cairo -- 6.8 Tables of the reciprocal of the absolute base for timekeeping by the sun and stars.
6.8.1 Anonymous: Cairo.
Summary: King (history of science, F.W. Goethe U., Frankfurt, Germany), in the first of two volumes, presents an analysis of over 500 manuscripts that document the use of the sun and stars to keep time, an essential task in determining the hour of prayer, which is called by the muezzin in the Islamic world. (Volume 2 will be devoted to the instruments used.
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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface 1 -- Preface 2 -- Statement on previous publication of parts of this work -- Bibliography and bibliographical abbreviations -- Part I A survey of tables for timekeeping by the sun and stars -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Chapter 1: On Islamic tables for timekeeping -- 1.0 Introductory remarks -- 1.1 Notation used in the analysis -- 1.2 The standard medieval formulae for timekeeping -- 1.3 Classification of subject matter -- 1.4 The format of the tables -- 1.5 Recomputation of tables -- Chapter 2: Tables of time as a function of solar and stellar altitude -- 2.0 Introductory remarks -- 2.1 Tables of time as a function of instantaneous solar altitude and solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 2.1.1 Ibn Yūnus / al-Maqsī / Ibn al-Kattānī / al-Bakhāniqī: Cairo -- 2.1.2 Abu 'l-Uqūl: Taiz -- 2.1.3 al-Mizzī: Damascus -- 2.1.4 al-Khalīlī: Damascus -- 2.1.5 Ibn al-Rashīdī (?): Jerusalem -- 2.1.6 Anonymous: Alexandria -- 2.1.7 Ahmad Efendī: Istanbul -- 2.1.8 al-Kutubī: Cairo -- 2.2 Tables of time as a function of solar longitude and instantaneous altitude for a given latitude -- 2.2.1 al-Karakī: Jerusalem -- 2.2.2 Anonymous: Edirne -- 2.2.3 Sālih Efendī: Istanbul -- 2.2.4 Husayn Husnī: Mecca -- 2.2.5 al-Tantāwī: Damascus -- 2.2.6 Anonymous: Jerusalem -- 2.3 Tables of time as a function of meridian altitude and instantaneous altitude, for a specific latitude -- 2.3.1 Alī ibn Amājūr: Baghdad -- 2.3.2 al-Tūsī: Maragha -- 2.3.3 Anonymous: Shiraz -- 2.3.4 Anonymous: unspecified locality (Iran) -- 2.3.5 Anonymous: Tunis -- 2.3.6 Taqi 'l-Dīn: Istanbul -- 2.3.7 Anonymous: Edirne (?) -- 2.4 Tables of time as a function of stellar altitude, for a specific latitude -- 2.4.1 Anonymous: Tunis -- 2.5 Tables of time since sunrise as a function of meridian altitude and instantaneous altitude, for all latitudes.

2.5.1 Alī ibn Amājūr (Baghdad) -- 2.5.2 Anonymous (Baghdad / Damascus) -- 2.5.3 Anonymous (Yemen) -- 2.6 Tables of the time since rising of the sun or fixed stars as a function of their altitude, for all latitudes -- 2.6.1 Najm al-Dīn al-Misrī (Cairo) -- 2.7 Tables of the time of night as a function of the normed right ascensions of culminating stars and the solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 2.7.1 Shihāb al-Dīn al-Halabī: Damascus -- 2.7.2 Muhammad ibn Kātib Sinān: Istanbul -- 2.8 Tables of the time of night as a function of the longitude of the horoscopus, for a specific latitude -- 2.8.1 Anonymous: Istanbul -- 2.8.2 Muhammad Zamān Mashhadī: Meshed -- 2.8.3 Anonymous: unspecified locality -- Chapter 3: Tables of the longitude of the horoscopus as a function of solar and stellar altitude -- 3.0 Introductory remarks -- 3.1 Tables of the longitude of the horoscopus as a function of the instantaneous solar altitude and solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 3.1.1 Abu 'l-'Uqūl: Taiz -- 3.2 Tables of the longitude of the horoscopus as a function of stellar altitude, for a specific latitude -- 3.2.1 Anonymous: Qandahar -- 3.2.2 Anonymous: Baghdad / Damascus -- 3.2.3 Ibn Dāir: Sanaa -- 3.3 Tables of the longitude of the horoscopus as a function of time and solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 3.3.1 al-Sultān al-Ashraf: Sanaa -- 3.3.2 Abu 'l-'Uqū: Taiz -- 3.3.3 Anonymous: Anatolia -- 3.4 Tables of the longitude of the horoscopus as a function of the time since rising of the stars, for a specific latitude -- 3.4.1 Ibn Dāir: Sanaa -- Chapter 4: Tables of solar and stellar altitude -- 4.0 Introductory remarks -- 4.1 Tables of solar altitude at the solstices as a function of time, for a specific latitude -- 4.1.1 Pseudo-al-Khwārizmī / Habash: various latitudes -- 4.1.2 al-Battānī: Raqqa -- 4.1.3 al-Maqsī and al-Marrākushī: various latitudes.

4.1.4 al-Sulān al-Ashraf: Yemen and Hejaz -- 4.1.5 Anonymous: Istanbul -- 4.2 Tables of solar altitude as a function of time since sunrise and solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 4.2.1 Anonymous: Baghdad -- 4.2.2 Anonymous: Baghdad -- 4.2.3 Saīd ibn Khafīf al-Samarqandī or Ibn al-Ādāmī: Baghdad -- 4.2.4 al-Marrākushī: Cairo -- 4.2.5 al-Sultān al-Ashraf: Sanaa -- 4.2.6 Abu 'l-Uqūl: Taiz -- 4.2.7 Najm al-Dīn al-Misrī: 4th climate (?) -- 4.3 Tables of solar altitude as a function of time since sunrise and meridian altitude, for all latitudes -- 4.3.1 Anonymous (Baghdad) -- 4.3.1* Muhyi 'l-Dīn al-Maghribī (?) (Maragha) -- 4.3.2 al-Marrākushī (Cairo) -- 4.3.3 Anonymous (Yemen) -- 4.3.4 Anonymous (Yemen) -- 4.3.5 al-Sālihī (?) (Damascus) -- 4.3.6 Husayn Qusa (?) (Tunis) -- 4.3.7 Zacuto (?) (Salamanca) / Anonymous (Yemen) -- 4.4 Tables of solar altitude as a function of the semi diurnal arc and the time since sunrise -- 4.4.1 Najm al-Dīn al-Misrī (?): Cairo -- 4.5 Tables of stellar altitude as a function of the longitude of the horoscopus, for a specific latitude -- 4.5.1 Abu 'l-Uqūl: Taiz -- 4.6 Tables of stellar altitude as a function of time of night, for a specific latitude -- 4.6.1 Ibn Dāir: Sanaa -- 4.7 Tables of solar altitudes in certain azimuths as a function of solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 4.7.1 Ibn Yūnus: Cairo -- 4.8 Tables of solar altitude in the prime vertical, for a specific latitude -- 4.8.1 Ibn Yūnus: Cairo -- 4.8.2 al-Mizzī: Damascus -- 4.8.3 al-Khalīlī: Damascus -- 4.8.4 Anonymous: Cairo -- 4.8.5 al-Asyūtī: Assiut -- 4.8.6 al-Mahallī: Damietta -- 4.8.7 al-Dīstī: Lattakia -- 4.8.8 Anonymous: Alexandria -- 4.8.9 Yūsuf Kilārjī: Crete -- 4.8.10 Anonymous: Nablus -- Chapter 5: Tables of solar azimuth -- 5.0 Introductory remarks.

5.1 Tables of solar azimuth as a function of solar altitude and solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 5.1.1 Ibn Yūnus: Cairo -- 5.1.2 Shihāb al-Dīn al-Halabī: Damascus -- 5.1.3 Anonymous: Alexandria -- 5.1.4 Anonymous: Damietta (?) -- 5.2 Tables of solar azimuth as a function of solar longitude and solar altitude, for a specific latitude -- 5.2.1 Anonymous: Cairo -- 5.3 Tables of solar azimuth as a function of meridian altitude and instantaneous altitude -- 5.3.1 al-Khalīlī (Damascus) -- 5.4 Tables of solar azimuth as a function of time and solar longitude, for a specific latitude -- 5.4.1 Pseudo-al-Khwārizmī (Habash): various latitudes -- 5.4.2 al-Battānī: Raqqa -- 5.4.3 Ibn al-Ādāmī or Saīd ibn Khafīf al-Samarqandī: Baghdad -- 5.4.4 al-Maqsī: Cairo -- 5.4.5 al-Marrākushī: Cairo -- 5.4.6 al-Sultān al-Ashraf -- 5.5 Tables of solar azimuth at the equinoxes as a function of time, for a specific latitude -- 5.5.1 Anonymous: Cairo -- 5.5.2 Ibn Abi 'l-Fath al-Sūfī: all latitudes -- 5.6 Tables of solar rising amplitude, for a specific latitude -- 5.6.1 Anonymous: Baghdad -- 5.6.2 Ibn Yūnus: Cairo -- 5.6.3 Muhyi 'l-Dīn al-Maghribī: Maragha -- 5.6.4 al-Marrākushī: Cairo -- 5.6.5 al-Mizzī: Damascus -- 5.6.6 al-Khalīlī: Damascus -- 5.6.7 Anonymous: Tunis -- 5.6.8 Anonymous: Isfahan -- 5.6.9 Miscellaneous: Cairo -- 5.6.10 al-Asyūtī: Assiut -- 5.6.11 al-Dīstī: Lattakia -- 5.6.12 Anonymous: Alexandria -- 5.6.13 Yūsuf Kilārjī: Crete -- 5.7 Tables of rising amplitude as a function of declination, for a specific latitude -- 5.7.1 Anonymous: Cairo -- 5.8 Tables of maximum solar rising amplitude as a function of latitude -- 5.8.1 al-Battānī (Raqqa) -- 5.8.2 Abu 'l-Wafā (Baghdad) -- 5.8.3 Sanjar al-Kamālī (Shiraz) -- Chapter 6: Tables of auxiliary functions for timekeeping -- 6.0 Introductory remarks -- 6.1 Tables of the sine of the solar declination.

6.1.1 Anonymous (Baghdad?) -- 6.1.2 al-Khalīlī (Damascus) -- 6.1.3 Ridwān Efendī (Cairo) -- 6.1.4 Taqi 'l-Dīn (Istanbul) -- 6.2 Tables of the cosine of the solar declination -- 6.2.1 Habash (Baghdad / Damascus) -- 6.2.2 Anonymous (Baghdad ?) -- 6.2.3 Abū Nasr (Khwarizm) -- 6.2.4 Anonymous (Cairo) -- 6.2.5 Anonymous (Tunis) -- 6.2.6 Ridwān Efendī (Cairo) -- 6.2.7 Abdallāh al-Halabī (?) (Aleppo) -- 6.3 Tables of the sine of the meridian altitude, for a specific latitude -- 6.3.1 al-Khatāī (Cairo) -- 6.3.2 al-Khalīlī: Damascus -- 6.3.3 Anonymous: Tunis -- 6.3.4 Anonymous: Tlemcen -- 6.3.5 Anonymous: Aleppo -- 6.4 Tables of the absolute base for timekeeping by the sun, for a specific latitude -- 6.4.1 al-Nasawī: Rayy -- 6.4.1* al-Baghdādī (?): Baghdad -- 6.4.1** Early anonymous: N. Iran -- 6.4.2 al-Khatāī: Cairo -- 6.4.3 Anonymous: Cairo -- 6.4.4 Anonymous: Mecca -- 6.4.5 Sanjar al-Kamālī: Shiraz -- 6.4.6 Anonymous: Anatolia -- 6.4.7 Anonymous: Tunis -- 6.4.8 Taqi 'l-Dīn: Istanbul -- 6.4.9 Anonymous: Istanbul -- 6.4.10 al-Dīstī: Lattakia -- 6.4.11 al-Jannād: various localities in the Western Maghrib -- 6.4.12 al-Mahallī: Damietta -- 6.4.13 Anonymous: Alexandria -- 6.4.14 Yūsuf Kilārjī: Crete -- 6.4.15 Anonymous: Tlemcen -- 6.4.16 Anonymous: Sfax -- 6.4.17 Sālih Efendī: Istanbul -- 6.4.18 Anonymous: Istanbul -- 6.4.19 Abdallāh al-Halabī (?): Aleppo -- 6.4.20 al-Alamī: Fez -- 6.5 Tables for marking the absolute base on trigonometric quadrants -- 6.5.1 al-Khalīlī: Damascus -- 6.5.2 Anonymous: Istanbul -- 6.5.2* Anonymous: Maghrib -- 6.6 Tables of the absolute base for timekeeping by the stars -- 6.7 Tables of the reciprocal of the absolute base and related functions for timekeeping by the sun -- 6.7.1 Anonymous: Cairo -- 6.7.2 al-Marrākushī: Cairo -- 6.8 Tables of the reciprocal of the absolute base for timekeeping by the sun and stars.

6.8.1 Anonymous: Cairo.

King (history of science, F.W. Goethe U., Frankfurt, Germany), in the first of two volumes, presents an analysis of over 500 manuscripts that document the use of the sun and stars to keep time, an essential task in determining the hour of prayer, which is called by the muezzin in the Islamic world. (Volume 2 will be devoted to the instruments used.

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