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

Brill (1999)
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The author describes how Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca and presents two highly sophisticated Mecca-centred world-maps for finding the qibla . These recently-discovered world-maps have forced a reevaluation of Muslim achievements in mathematics and cartography

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David King
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