Explanation: During the Islamic Golden Age, significant advancements were made in the field of mathematics, surpassing the Classical authors Muslim scholars cited, which in no small part laid the foundation for the advanced mathematics of the modern era…
… in part motivated because calculating the exact direction of Mecca from one’s current position is religiously important for pious Muslims, who pray towards Mecca.
The ONE friggin time being an extremist and interpreting religious texts literally has paid off bigtime.
Same goes for knowing when to pray, you get calendars with all the calculations on the exact time, down to the minute on when the sun is going to be in five precise locations in the sky.
The Virgin Christian abbots :
Noo, it’s middday when I ring my bells, it doesn’t matter how bright it is outside!
The Chad Muslim Imam:
Yes, I had the most mathematically capable brother calculate for us that Zuhr is exactly 12:03 today, MashAllahYou believe that praying at a certain time and direction is extremism?
You believe that praying at a certain time and direction is extremism?
praying at precise times and precise directions.
Hypothetically, you could interpret the prayers and directions as North, Northwest etc and “five times a day, roughly spaced apart”. But the calculations are extremely precise.
I was jokingly saying the bush administration should have drummed up support for the iraq war by playing up the arabs inventing algebra. I was against the war from the start strongly however.
Could’ve accused the Al-Gebra-ists of pursuing weapons of Math Instruction. :-)
