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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.
There appears to be another translation by T. N. Senapathy, the details of which are not known. [3]: 37 The first verse translation was made by Subramaniyan Krishnamoorthy, which was published in New Delhi by Sahitya Akademi. [3]: 34 Krishnamoorthy has also translated Cilappadikaaram into English published by M. P. Birla Foundation, Kolkata. [1]
"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 ...
The Qur'an has been translated into most major African, Asian and European languages from Arabic. [1] Studies involving understanding, interpreting and translating the Quran can contain individual tendencies, reflections and even distortions [2] [3] caused by the region, sect, [4] education, religious ideology [5] and knowledge of the people who made them.
1905: Sri Kiran Gopal Singha (1885-1942). He was first Hindu to translate the Quran into Bengali. [14] 1907: Translation of Maulavi Abbas Ali of 24 Pargana. [14] 1911: Muhammad Meherullah Sani (1856-1918) 'বাংলা কোরআন শরিফ' [1] 1913: Alauddin Ahmad (1851-1915) and Hafez Mahmud Shah. His translation was published at ...
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 ...
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 ...