The astronomical orientation of the historical Grand mosques in Anatolia (Turkey)

DOI10.1007/S00407-018-0215-1MaRDI QIDQ1789090zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 9 October 2018

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-018-0215-1

zbMATH Keywords

historical mosquesQibla orientationTurkey

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30)

Review text

This is a very informative study about the various methods of determining the \textit{Qibla} orientation of a mosque in various times during the past almost 1400 years, culminating with a list of the deviations from the exact \textit{Qibla} in the actual \textit{Qibla} orientations of the Grand mosques orientations in present-day Turkey.

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