Buku ini membahas karya ilmuwan Muslim abad ke-12, Al-Khazini, yang merancang dan mendeskripsikan sebuah automata bola astronomi yang dapat berotasi secara otomatis untuk meniru gerakan benda-benda langit. Dalam risalahnya yang berjudul Maqāla fī Ittiḥād Kuratin bi-Ḍātika bi-Ḥarakah Mutasāwiya li-Ḥarakāt al-Falak, Al-Khazini menguraikan prinsip kerja bola langit mekanik yang berpu…
Buku ini membahas pemikiran dan karya ilmiah Taqi al-Din al-Rashid, seorang ilmuwan Muslim abad ke-16 yang dikenal sebagai pionir dalam bidang mekanika dan astronomi. Fokus utama buku ini adalah analisis terhadap mekanisme jam astronomi yang dijelaskan dalam karya klasiknya, Al-Kawakib al-Durriyya fi Wadh' al-Bankamat al-Dawriyya. Melalui pendekatan filologis dan kajian historis-teknologis, buk…
Buku ini membahas secara mendalam kontribusi Al-Battani, seorang ilmuwan Muslim abad ke-9, dalam pengembangan ilmu trigonometri melalui karyanya Risalah Tajrid Usul Tarkib Al-Juyub. Dalam risalah tersebut, Al-Battani menguraikan prinsip-prinsip dasar trigonometri, termasuk identitas dan fungsi-fungsi trigonometri seperti sinus, kosinus, dan tangen, yang menjadi fondasi penting dalam astronomi d…
Buku ini membahas kontribusi besar Al-Jazari, seorang ilmuwan dan insinyur Muslim abad ke-12, dalam pengembangan teknologi mekanik, khususnya automata atau robot humanoid, sebagaimana tercantum dalam karya monumentalnya Kitab al-Jami' bayn al-‘Ilm wa al-‘Amal al-Nafi’ fi Sina’at al-Hiyal. Penelitian dalam buku ini mengungkap prinsip-prinsip rekayasa yang digunakan Al-Jazari, seperti sis…
This is a comprehensive handbook which for the first time provides a general yet detailed discussion of contemporary Islam and various aspects of Muslim lives. It offers a much needed tool for an introduction to the world of contemporary Muslim life and debate, and a link of continuity between the Muslim world and Muslims living and born in the West. The reader gains access to articles by leadi…
The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes that reshape power structures and the experience of being Muslim. It makes room for perspectives from the region in an academic world shaped by…
Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mystics from India to Arabia. At the center is the influential Sufi scholar Shaykh Ali Muttaqi and his little-known network of disciples. Scott Kugle relates how Ali Muttaqi, an expert in Arabic, scriptural hermeneutics, and hadith, left his native Sout…
The whole material of this book was scattered in many places. The writer tried to collect it to be one draft of the book in 2010. Unfortunately, the laptop in which the final draft prepared lost coincidently. It is until this pandemic covid-19 time, the writer realize that the lost final draft can be traced back from the scattered material in many different files. Although, it takes time, the b…