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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 Entrepreneur Newspaper: private, bi-monthly The Evening News: state-owned The Finder Newspaper: news from Ghana and Africa, politics, entertainment, world, health, business and sports Today Newspaper: North Ridge, Accra 2007 Ghana Sports Publications Limited w.todaygh.com: private Free Press: private The Gazette Newspaper: weekly newspaper
Following the 6 March 1957 declaration of independence by Ghana from the United Kingdom, there were only around four newspapers.Leader Kwame Nkrumah eventually controlled all the press in Ghana and saw it as an instrument of state authority, providing propaganda that encouraged national unity and creating a hierarchal system of state apparatus to manage the media. [1]
The Ghanaian Chronicle is an English-language daily newspaper published from Accra, Ghana. It has a circulation of 45,000 copies, making it the biggest private newspaper in Ghana. It has a circulation of 45,000 copies, making it the biggest private newspaper in Ghana.
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According to King, the first muwaqqit known by name was Abu al-Hasan ali ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Sim'un (died 685 AH or 1286/1287 CE), a muwaqqit in the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As in Fustat, Egypt for 30 years. His son Muhammad al-Wajih (died 701 AH or 1301/1302 CE) and grandson Muhammad al-Majd also served as muwaqqit there. [22]
Dominique Pélicot — who was found guilty of drugging and raping his wife Gisèle Pélicot and inviting dozens to sexually assault her over the course of nearly 10 years — is facing renewed ...
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.