In Synchrony with the Heavens, Volume 1 Call of the Muezzin: (Studies I-IX) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004261792)

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.

Author: David King
ISBN-10: 9004261796
ISBN-13: 9789004261792
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2013
Pages: 988
Format: Paperback
Weight: 5.15lbs
Size: 10.50h x 8.20w x 1.50d

About the Author
David A. King, Ph.D. (1972) in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Yale University, has been Professor of the History of Science at the J. W. Goethe University in Frankfurt since 1985. He has published extensively on astronomy and astronomical instruments in Islamic civilization.