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The Dar al-Muwaqqit of the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque (marked by the double-arched window overlooking the courtyard). A Dar al-Muwaqqit (Arabic: دار المؤقت), or muvakkithane in Turkish, is a room or structure accompanying a mosque which was used by the muwaqqit or timekeeper, an officer charged with maintaining the correct times of prayer and communicating them to the muezzin (the person ...
The second translation was by E. C. Sastri in 1974. [1] The third translation appeared in 1993 by N. Ramanuja Das, [1] which was published in Khardah in West Bengal. [3]: 36 The second and third translations too were made in prose. There appears to be another translation by T. N. Senapathy, the details of which are not known.
The muvakkithane ("lodge of the muwaqqit") in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. In the history of Islam, a muwaqqit (Arabic: مُوَقَّت, more rarely ميقاتي mīqātī; Turkish: muvakit) was an astronomer tasked with the timekeeping and the regulation of prayer times in an Islamic institution like a mosque or a madrasa.
The Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, regularly used for Congregational prayer. [1] [2]A congregational mosque or Friday mosque (Arabic: مَسْجِد جَامِع, masjid jāmi‘, or simply: جَامِع, jāmi‘; Turkish: Cami), or sometimes great mosque or grand mosque (Arabic: جامع كبير, jāmi‘ kabir; Turkish: Ulu Cami), is a mosque for hosting the Friday noon prayers ...
The tradition of covering the Kaaba predates the emergence of Islam, with various Yemeni textiles composing the draping. [3] According to Ibn Hisham, King Tubba Abu Karib As'ad of the Himyarite Kingdom, who would later become a revered figure in Islamic traditions, clothed Kaaba for the first time during the rule of the Jurhum tribe of Mecca in the early fifth century CE after learning about ...
"The Meaning of the Glorious Quran" by Marmaduke Pickthall 1929 [4] "The Koran : Commonly Called the Alkoran of Mohammed-with large commentary, by George Sale. [5] "Quran to English" by Arab born American Talal Itani. [6] Translation. Tafsir Ibn 'Abbas: Great Commentaries of the Holy Qur'an translated by Mokrane Guezzou. Fons Vitae, Royal Aal ...
Girish Chandra Sen, a Brahmo Samaj missionary, was the first person to produce a complete translation of the Qur'an into the Bengali language in 1886, although an incomplete translation was made by Amiruddin Basunia in 1808. [53] [54] Abbas Ali of Chandipur, West Bengal was the first Muslim to translate the entire Qur'an into the Bengali language.
The dikka in the Mosque of Sultan Hasan in Cairo The müezzin mahfili in the Selimiye Mosque of Edirne, Turkey. A dikka or dakka (Arabic: دكة), [1] [2] also known in Turkish as a müezzin mahfili, [3] is a raised platform or tribune in a mosque from which the Quran is recited and where the muezzin chants or repeats in response to the imam's prayers.