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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 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.
Mustafa ibn Ali al-Muwaqqit (died 1571, the epithet al-Muwaqqit means "the timekeeper"), also known as Müneccimbaşı Mustafa Çelebi and Koca Saatçi, was an Ottoman astronomer and author of geography from the sixteenth century. Because of his works on the science of timekeeping and practical astronomy, he is considered "the founder of the ...
"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 ...
A page from al Achsasi's al-Durrah al-muḍīyah fī al-ʻamāl al-shamsīyah. Muḥammad al Achsasi al Mouakket (Arabic: محمد الاخصاصي الموقت) was a 17th century Egyptian astronomer whose calendarium and catalogue of stars, al-Durrah al-muḍīyah fī al-ʻamāl al-shamsīyah ("Pearls of brilliance upon the solar operations"), was written in Cairo in about 1650.
One of them was published in 1990, and it is by the first woman to translate the Qur'an into English, Amatul Rahman Omar, together with her husband, Abdul Mannan Omar. [30] In 1991 appeared an English translation under the title: The Clarion Call Of The Eternal Qur-aan, by Muhammad Khalilur Rahman (b. 1906–1988), Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was the ...
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.
Al-Jāmi' al-Kāmil Fī al-Hadīth al-Sahīh al-Shāmil or in short al-Jāmi' al-Kāmil (Arabic: الجامع الكامل في الحديث الصحيح الشامل), known in English as The Comprehensive Collection of all Authentic Prophetic Narrations or The Authentic Hadith Encyclopaedia, [2] [3] is a secondary hadith collection book, compiled by the Islamic scholar Imam Ziya-ur-Rahman ...