دورية أكاديمية
Two Early Persian Texts on Shadow Schemes and the Regulation of the Prayer Times
| العنوان: | Two Early Persian Texts on Shadow Schemes and the Regulation of the Prayer Times |
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| المؤلفون: | Rezvani, Pouyan |
| المصدر: | Suhayl. International Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation; 2014: Vol.: 13; p. 119-147 |
| Publication Status: | published |
| بيانات النشر: | Universitat de Barcelona, 2014. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | shadow schemes, prayer times, timekeeping, Shāyest Nāshāyest, Yawāqīt al-þUlūm wa Darārī al-Nujūm, Zoroastrians, gnomonics |
| الوصف: | In this article, we shall elucidate the use of shadow lengths for regulating prayer times among Zoroastrians, focusing on a part of a Zoroastrian religious book entitled Shāyest Nāshāyest , written in Middle Persian (Pahlavī) language probably around the 9th c. A.D. Then, we will compare this text with a part of another Persian work entitled Yawāqīt al-þUlūm wa Darārī al-Nujūm which is written in the second half of the 6th century after Hijra (the 12th c. A.D.) by Abū Mu¬ammad al-Najjār in Islamic civilization. For this purpose, we will recalculate the given values for the shadow lengths of the gnomon – taken as the height of a man – in both texts and find the best fitted latitudes for them. Finally, we will mention the similarities of the two texts to investigate the possibility of a historical relationship between them. Moreover, the transmission of this timekeeping method among some civilizations will be discussed. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2013-620X 1576-9372 |
| Relation: | https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Suhayl/article/view/287312/375557 |
| URL الوصول: | https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Suhayl/article/view/287312 |
| حقوق: | Suhayl. International Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation està subjecta a una llicència Creative Commons 3.0 de Reconeixement - No Comercial - Sense Obres Derivades. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsrac.287312 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert) |
| تدمد: | 2013620X 15769372 |
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