In Synchrony with the Heavens. Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civilization. 2 vol., Leiden, Brill, 2004-2005, vol 1: lvii+930 p.; vol. 2: lxxvi+1066 p.
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Benno Van Dalen, « In Synchrony with the Heavens. Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civilization. 2 vol., Leiden, Brill, 2004-2005, vol 1: lvii+930 p.; vol. 2: lxxvi+1066 p. », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.30882
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These two massive volumes constitute an extended version of what the author had announced and referred to for nearly 30 years as SATMI (Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping in Medieval Islam), but has now in fact become much more than that. The 18 parts (9 in each volume) represent the vast amount of sources, both manuscripts and instruments, that the author has studied and evaluated during the last 30 years. The twelve studies in Volume 1, entitled “The Call of the Muezzin”, deal with the fol...