Qur'anScience
Qur'anScience
Many old mosques were built facing due west — more than 20° off the direction of the Ka‘bah. A Minangkabau scholar trained in Mecca and at al-Azhar checked the qiblah of mosques in Perak, wrote logarithm tables for prayer times, and is remembered today in the Sheikh Tahir Astronomy Centre. The forty-eighth book of Tracing the Scholars of Islam tells the story of Shaykh Tahir Jalaluddin. “That you may know the number of years and account of time.”
“It is He who made the sun a shining light and the moon a derived light and determined for it phases — that you may know the number of years and account [of time].”
Anyone who wants to know the early scholars
Parents & heads of families
Students of astronomy, science teachers & history lovers
Preachers, teachers & counsellors
The story of Shaykh Tahir Jalaluddin — 22 chapters with Qur’anic verses, authentic Hadith with linked chains, a timeline, a qiblah chart, a spherical-triangle diagram, an istiwa’ a‘zam chart, history notes marked separately, a glossary and reflection questions.