Sorry if I misread you. A bit hasty, I guess. -Brooks
On 2015-02-05 05:48 PM, Kevin Birth wrote:
Somehow in the editing it came across that I suggested that Muslims don't use
software to know prayer times. That is absolutely not true. I'm one of the
few people who has researched such uses. They are widespread, and they also
nationalistic. The smartphone versions also use GPS to calculate proper prayer
times and Qibla, and many even feature a call to prayer as a ringtone. The two
that I often use in my talks are islamicfinder.org and moonsighting.com.
Moonsighting.com is really cool because it uses NASA data to indicate where the
moon is visible across the globe.
There are Muslims who argue against using such technology and state that it is
better for a Muslim to use the traditional methods of watching the sky to know
when to pray than to use an app. This is a permutation of the debate over
whether there should be a worldwide Islamic calendar to determine the start of
Ramadan rather than having each location start Ramadan based on observations by
local witnesses.
One awkward consequences of all the different calendar/salat apps is that many
of my Muslim friends and students find themselves beginning and ending Ramadan
on different days. This results in some feasting while others are fasting.
Cheers,
Kevin
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On 2015-02-05 01:51 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
Kevin Birth <kevin.bi...@qc.cuny.edu> wrote:
I'm no longer that integrated, but from earlier years i know no
Muslim that uses software for that, not even watches.
Some of my Muslim friends most certainly do -
http://www.muslimpro.com/
-Brooks
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