Meet Maryam al-Asturlābiyya: The Muslim woman behind the 10th-century astrolabes.
She was born in Syria and known to have taken the craft of building astrolabes to the next level. An astrolabe is an ancient device used to measure time and the position of the sun and stars.+
Astrolabe
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Right from the beginning of Islamic history astrolabe making&astrolabe reading was regarded as a Nobel profession particularly,during the the Abbasi period.
Some of the outstanding Muslim scientists like Al-Beruni
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5/ In the 10th century, the Muslim Persian astronomer ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al- Ṣūfī estimated that there were around a thousand possible applications for an astrolabe, ranging from the position of the stars or the direction of Mecca to the height of a building
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Mariam Astrulabi was a Muslim scientist & astronomer born in Syria during the 10th century. She is known for developing Astrolabes, an ancient astronomical computer for solving problems relating to time & position of the sun & stars
A thread on Mariam Astrulabi & the astrolabe…
"Akbar's horoscopes: how to become a Leo if you are not" (how astrologers acted not only as the psychiatrists but also as the spin doctors of the Mughal Empire) @britishlibrary https://t.co/Mko2h9GyqP
Stars & the Art of Astronomy in Islamic History @BaytAlFann https://t.co/aMg4EwCUJv; (below: artwork by Neslihan Gülbahar Ekinci [b. 1974, Istanbul]), for more on her work, see https://t.co/zRg932jiz5
- “What brought you to the study of Arabic and history of the Qur’an?”
- I was 16 years old… I started to collect every image of old Qur’an manuscript and try to imitate them by hand.… That’s the beginning of my fascination for Qur’anic manuscripts 😊
Exceptional Qur’ān manuscript preserved at the Egyptian National Library (inv. 25). It was made in 1768 CE for the Sultan of Morocco Sidi Mohammed b. Abd Allah (1757-1790), member of Alawi dynasty. Its illumination realized with 8 different colors is striking! 1/2