World-Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca: Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science

by David A. King

Book Overview

The author describes how Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction ("qibla") towards Mecca and presents two highly sophisticated Mecca-centred world-maps for finding the "qibla,"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004259872
• ISBN13: 9789004259874
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 670 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.