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    Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world - Wikipedia

    • Medieval Islamic astronomy comprises the astronomical developments made in the Islamic world, particularly during the Islamic Golden Age (9th–13th centuries), and mostly written in the Arabic language. These developments mostly took place in the Middle East, Central Asia, Al-Andalus, and North Africa, and later in the Far East and India. It closely par… See more

    History

    The Islamic historian Ahmad Dallal notes that, unlike the Babylonians, Greeks, and Indians, who had developed elaborate … See more

    Influences

    Islamic astronomy influenced Malian astronomy.
    Several works of Islamic astronomy were translated to Latin starting from the 12th century.
    The work of … See more

    Observatories

    The first systematic observations in Islam are reported to have taken place under the patronage of al-Mamun. Here, and in many other private observatories from Damascus to Baghdad, meridian degree measurement were perfor… See more

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    Instruments

    Our knowledge of the instruments used by Muslim astronomers primarily comes from two sources: first the remaining instruments in private and museum collections today, and second the treatises and manuscripts preserved f… See more

    Astronomy in Islamic art

    Examples of cosmological imagery in Islamic art can be found in objects such as manuscripts, astrological tools, and palace frescoes, and the study of the heavens by Islamic astronomers has translated into artistic repr… See more

    Sources

    • Dallal, Ahmad (1999). "Science, Medicine and Technology". In Esposito, John (ed.). The Oxford History of Islam. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-01951-0-799-9.
    • Dallal, Ahmad (2010). Islam, Science, and the Ch… See more

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