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Title: | Al-Asfi's description of the Zawiya Nasiriyya: The Use of Buildings as Astronomicals Tools. |
Author: | Rius Piniés, Mònica Puig Aguilar, Roser |
Keywords: | Observatoris astronòmics Edificis Instruments astronòmics Mesquites Marroc Astronomical observatories Buildings Astronomical instruments Mosques Morocco |
Issue Date: | Aug-2015 |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Abstract: | Early Arabic sources report the existence of giant astronomical devices housed inside buildings which were used for observational and computational purposes. Some of them are known to us, but their chronology and their relationship to other well-oriented devices in the Islamic or even in the Latin milieu are yet to be explored in depth. This paper aims to establish whether the zāwiya Nāṣiriyya in Tamegroute (Tamgrūt, in the Drâa valley) described by al-Asfī (seventeenth to eighteenth century) can be considered as part of this tradition. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1177/0021828615589484 |
It is part of: | Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2015, vol. 46, num. 3, p. 325-342 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/105862 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0021828615589484 |
ISSN: | 0021-8286 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Filologia Clàssica, Romànica i Semítica) |
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