At 20.14 19/10/98 +1000, you wrote: >Hi all, > I would like to design a sundial that has furniture on it to indicate > the >times for Muslim prayers. Does anyone know the times for Muslim prayers? I >know that there is a prayer time before sunrise, noon (by the sun) and >before sunset. I have also been told that there is also a prayer time when >the shadow of a pole is as long as the height of the pole, but that is all >I know. Also has anyone got any information about Muslim sundials? > >Thanks in advance, > >Roderick Wall.
Dear Roderick, if you desire to calculate the times of the Islamic prayers by youself you have to follow the instructions given by Fer de Vries . On the contrary if you desire a program to make the calculations and some information on Islamic prayers I list below some programs and files that you can find in Internet - MINARET for Windows 95 - by Kamal Abdali - Whashington Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Look for it in ftp.netcom.com the program is well done and very useful - HILAL for Excel and SALATIME - by Ali Cengia - Muslim Community - Australia (73 Barossa Rd. - 7010 - Australia ) - MOON CALCULATOR and PRAYER Time CALCULATOR - by Dr. Monzur Ahmed Birmingham - UK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] very documented with history and bibliography - ISLAMIC TIMER - by Waleed A. Muhanna - Columbus - Ohaio - RAMADAN.DOC - Text file - by Mohib N. Durrani - Islamic Amateur Astronomers Association - Columbia University - NY Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Veri interesting. Addresses and EMail are old ( 1996 ) and perhaps they are no more valid. I don't have the www links from where it's possible to unload the programs and, if you'll find some difficulties , I can send some of them as file ttached to a personal message. In 1997 I have written a book (not printed and distributed in photocopy ) that deals with ancient Islamic Sundials. In it there is the history of them, several informations on the prayers , the Hilal, the Kibla, etc. and the description, in detail and in modern form, of the types of sundials that are described in the Arabic manuscripts of the 900-1300 The book (150 pags. A4, 125 sketches and graphs and 56 reproductions of photos) is written in Italian and to it is enclosed a floppy disk with several programs to calculate, to draw and to visualize many types of fixed and portable sundials of the ancient Arabs. If you are interested I can send the files (470 kb zipped) (unfortunately also the programs are in Italian) Best regards Gianni Ing. Gianni Ferrari Via Valdrighi, 135 41100 - MODENA ( ITALY ) EMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
