TEXT

ʿAmal birkār yuʿraf bihi al-awqāt li-al-ṣalāh

Title (arabic)

عمل بركار يُعرف به الأوقات للصلاة

Title (translit)

ʿAmal birkār yuʿraf bihi al-awqāt li-al-ṣalāh

Alias

ʿAmal birkār yuʿraf bihi al-awqāt li-al-ṣalāẗ wa-yuqās bihi al-ẓill
[Treatise on a compass for determining prayer-times]

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Notes

A treatise on the construction and use of a compass for finding the times of prayer.

ismi_id

141309

Literature References

Charette, François, and Petra Schmidl. 2004. “Al-Khwārizmī and Practical Astronomy in Ninth-Century Baghdad, the Earliest Extant Corpus of Texts in Arabic on the Astrolabe and Other Portable Instruments”. SCIAMVS 5: 101-98.

P. 105, text 3.