Hādhā kitāb al-manhaj al-aqrab li-taṣḥīḥ mawḍiʻ al-ʻaqrab : manuscript, [1856].

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Hādhā kitāb al-manhaj al-aqrab li-taṣḥīḥ mawḍiʻ al-ʻaqrab : manuscript, [1856].

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Astronomical tables and instructions for using them to set pocket watches; also contains schedules entitled Mawqiʻ al-sāʻāt ʻalá ḥasab awqāt al-ṣalawāt by Ramaḍān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Safaṭī al-Khawānikī, on determining the times for the five daily prayers.

1 v. ([76], 32, 89 p.) ; 24 cm.

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Khawānikī, Ramaḍān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Safaṭī, d. 1745.

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Important 18th-century Egyptian astronomer; pupil of Egyptian astronomers Riḍwān Afandī al-Falakī (d. 1710) and Muḥammad al-Birshamsī; close friend of Ḥasan al-Jabartī; his writings very popular in 18th-19th centuries. See J. Heyworth-Dunne, An Introduction to the History of Education in Modern Egypt (London, 1938), p. 79. From the description of al-Itḥāf ʻalá nubdhat al-isʻāf : fī maʻrifat qaws al-khilāf wa-huwa ḥall muqawwimāt al-ʻuqūd wa-basṭuhā lil-ajzā wa-bas...

Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945

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