[PDF] Volkstumliche Astronomie Im Islamischen Mittelalter eBook

Author : Petra Schmidl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 879 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2007-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9047420500

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This volume deals with the determination of the times of Muslim prayer and the direction towards the Kaaba in Mecca (Arabic qibla) in a little known astronomical tradition of the Islamic Middle Ages. It presents an edition, translation, and explanation of selected chapters from three of the most important folk astronomical treatises, written by al-Aṣbaḥī (Yemen, 13th c.), Ibn Raḥīq (Hejaz, 11th c.), and al-Fārisī (Yemen, 13th c.). The first part introduces the authors and their works and describes the relevant religious and astronomical background. The second part comprises the edition of the selected – and now for the first time published – chapters of the three works and a German translation. The third part contains a lexicographical survey with basic astronomical, religious, and related information, and a commentary on each chapter. The fourth part gives an overview of the topics dicussed.

Author : Petra G. Schmidl
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN :

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This volume deals with the determination of the times of Muslim prayer and the direction towards the Kaaba in Mecca (Arabic qibla ) in a little known astronomical tradition of the Islamic Middle Ages. It presents an edition, translation, and explanation of selected chapters from three of the most important folk astronomical treatises, written by al-Aṣbaḥī (Yemen, 13th c.), Ibn Raḥīq (Hejaz, 11th c.), and al-Fārisī (Yemen, 13th c.). The first part introduces the authors and their works and describes the relevant religious and astronomical background. The second part comprises the edition of the selected - and now for the first time published - chapters of the three works and a German translation. The third part contains a lexicographical survey with basic astronomical, religious, and related information, and a commentary on each chapter. The fourth part gives an overview of the topics dicussed.

Author : Petra G. Schmidl
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Astronomy, Arab
ISBN : 9789004153905

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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)).

Author : David A. King
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 9789004261815

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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. The materials presented provide new insights into the early development of the prayer ritual in Islam. They also call into question the popular notion that religion could not inspire serious scientific activity. Only one of the hundreds of astronomical tables discussed here was known in medieval Europe, which is one reason why the entire corpus has remained unknown until the present. The second and third volume deal with astronomical instruments for timekeeping and other computing devices. (Complete set: includes volume 1 and volume 2 in 2 parts).

Author : Frank Griffel
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195331621

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A comprehensive study of Muslim thinker al-Ghazali's life and his understanding of cosmology-how God creates things and events in the world, how human acts relate to God's power, and how the universe is structured.

Author : Jean Louis Brau
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :

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Introduces the terms and divisions of both Western and Eastern astrology, with step-by-step instructions for calculating horoscopes.

Author : Professor Ross W Duffin
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754667308

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Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both 1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of the Whole Book of Psalmes (1621) and his original sacred works. A theorist, composer and editor, Ravenscroft wrote two treatises on music theory: A Briefe Discourse (1614), and 'A Treatise of Practicall Musicke' (c.1607), which remains in manuscript. This is the first book to bring together both theoretical works by this important Jacobean musician and to provide critical studies and transcriptions of these treatises.