1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462796403321

Autore

Blake Stephen P.

Titolo

Time in early modern Islam : calendar, ceremony, and chronology in the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires / / by Stephen P. Blake [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-61102-X

1-107-23748-3

1-139-61288-3

1-139-62218-8

1-283-94299-2

1-139-62590-X

1-139-60924-6

1-139-34330-0

1-139-61660-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 209 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

529/.327

Soggetti

Islamic calendar

Astronomy - Religious aspects - Islam

Time - Religious aspects - Islam

Islam and science - History

Iran History SÌ£afavid dynasty, 1501-1736

Mogul Empire

Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman empires -- Calendar -- Ceremony -- Chronology: era -- Chronology: millenarian.

Sommario/riassunto

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 were responsible for the major advances in mathematics, astronomy and astrology. This fascinating study compares the Islamic concept of time, and its historical and cultural significance, across these three great empires. Each empire, while mindful of earlier models, created a new temporal system, fashioning a new solar calendar and era and a new round of rituals and ceremonies from the cultural resources at hand. This book contributes to our understanding of the Muslim temporal system and our appreciation of the influence of Islamic science on the Western world.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454076803321

Autore

El Guindi Fadwa

Titolo

By noon prayer : the rhythm of Islam / / Fadwa El Guindi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2020

ISBN

1-000-18320-3

1-003-08483-4

1-4742-1453-3

1-282-28597-1

9786612285974

1-84788-454-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Disciplina

297.3/6

Soggetti

Islam - Essence, genius, nature

Rhythm - Religious aspects - Islam

Time - Religious aspects - Islam

Prayer - Islam

Anthropology of religion - Islamic countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2008 by Berg Publishers."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-198) and indexes.



Nota di contenuto

Dedication; Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface; Part ISpatiality and Temporality; -1-Conceptual Overview; -2-The Anthropology of Time and Space; Part IICosmos and Calendar; -3-Order and Creative Beginning; -4-Science, Religion, and Business of Temporality; Part IIIThe Arabo-Islamic Ecology of Rhythm; -5-Marking Time, Carving Space; -6-Khususiyya, Qudsiyya, Jama'iyya:A Theory ofArabo-Islamic Rhythm; -7-Conclusion; Notes; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

A groundbreaking anthropological analysis of Islam as experienced by Muslims, By Noon Prayer builds a conceptual model of Islam as a whole, while travelling along a comparative path of biblical, Egyptological, ethnographic, poetic, scriptural and visual materials. Grounded in long-term observation of Arabo-Islamic culture and society, the study captures the rhythm of Islam weaving through the lives of Muslim women and men.Examples of the rhythmic nature of Islam can be seen in all aspects of Muslims' everyday lives. Muslims break their Ramadan fast upon the sun setting, and they receive Ramadan by sighting the new moon. Prayer for their dead is by noon and burial is before sunset. This is space and time in Islam - moon, sun, dawn and sunset are all part of a unique and unified rhythm, interweaving the sacred and the ordinary, nature and culture in a pattern that is characteristically Islamic.