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The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque ( Arabic: جَامِع ٱلشَّيْخ زَايِد ٱلْكَبِيْر Jāmiʿ Aš-Šaykh Zāyid Al-Kabīr) is located in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. [ 1] It is the country's largest mosque, and is the key place of worship for daily Islamic prayers. There is a smaller replica of this ...
On September 14, 2015, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, for bringing a disassembled digital clock to school. The incident ignited allegations of racial profiling and Islamophobia from many media sources and commentators. The episode arose when Mohamed reassembled the parts of a digital clock in ...
To calculate prayer times two astronomical measures are necessary, the declination of the sun and the difference between clock time and sundial clock. This difference being the result of the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit and the inclination of its axis, it is called the equation of time. The declination of the sun is the angle between sun's ...
Great Mosque of Kairouan. The Great Mosque of Kairouan ( Arabic: جامع القيروان الأكبر ), also known as the Mosque of Uqba ( جامع عقبة بن نافع ), is a mosque situated in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Kairouan, Tunisia and is one of the largest Islamic monuments in North Africa. [ 1] Established by the Arab ...
By the early 10th century, a monumental water clock had been installed by the entrance in the western part of the southern wall of the mosque, which was consequently known as Bab al-Sa'a ('Gate of the Clock') at the time but is known today as Bab al-Ziyada. [70] This clock seems to have stopped functioning by the middle of the 12th century. [71]
Mecca Time was a proposed time standard that uses the line of longitude that goes through Mecca, Saudi Arabia (39°49′34″ E of the Greenwich Meridian) as its Prime Meridian. A clock based on this meridian would be at approximately UTC +02:39:18.3. The proposal was made by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi and other Muslim clerics meeting in Doha ...
The Artuqid ruler Nasr al-Din Mahmud (r. 1201–1222) is known to have commisionned the first edition of Al-Jāmi‘ fī ṣinā‘at al-ḥiyal of Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari, in April 1206 at the Artuqid court. [ 20][ 21] This manuscript is known as Ahmet III 3472, now in the Topkapı Sarayı Library. The miniatures are thought to reflect various ...
The week of July 11, the Fit Republic sign was still on the outside of the 69,000-square-foot building located just a few feet away from Costco Wholesale’s Tacoma location. Inside, the building ...