Stephen P. Blake: Time in Early Modern Islam
Скачать книгу (размер 1 110 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 219) Аннотация: The prophet Muhammad and the early Islamic community radically redefined the concept of time that they had inherited from earlier religions' beliefs and practices. This new temporal system, based on a lunar calendar and era, was complex and required sophistication and accuracy. From the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, it was the Muslim astronomers of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires who…