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Sharjah Science Museum (متحف الشارقة العلمي) is a science museum in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. [1]The museum opened on 17 April 1996. [2] It includes over 50 interactive exhibits, and another section is the educational center, which organizes workshops and provides visitors with opportunities to learn about various fields of science and technology.
The museum is situated in the historical centre of Sharjah on the Majarrah Waterfront, in a building originally constructed as a souq (indoor market). [4] Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, a member of the Supreme Council of the UAE and ruler of Sharjah, inaugurated the museum on 5 June 2008. [5]
Al-Idrisi's world map from 'Ali ibn Hasan al-Hufi al-Qasimi's 1456 copy. This is an example of the circular world maps inserted into the manuscript in later editions. The book, written in Arabic, is divided into seven "climatic zones" each of which is subdivided into ten sections. Each section is given its two-page spread map, for a total of 70 ...
The geographers of this school, such as Istakhri, al-Muqaddasi and Ibn Hawqal, wrote extensively of the peoples, products, and customs of areas in the Muslim world, with little interest in the non-Muslim realms, [3] and produced world atlases, each one featuring a world map and twenty regional maps.
Al-Hajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Matar; Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid) Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (Algorismi), algebra [30] and algorithms [31] 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk; Abū al-Hasan ibn Alī al-Qalasādī (1412–1482), pioneer of symbolic algebra [32] Abū Kāmil Shujā ibn Aslam; Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī; Al-Kindi (Alkindus) Banū Mūsā ...
Al-Idrisi hailed from the Hammudid dynasty of North Africa and Al-Andalus, which was descended from Muhammad through the powerful Idrisid dynasty. [1] [2] Al-Idrisi was believed to be born the city of Ceuta in 1100, at the time controlled by the Almoravids, where his great-grandfather had been forced to settle after the fall of Hammudid Málaga to the Zirids of Granada. [3]
The Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Centre was inaugurated in early 2018, it was the world's largest single-delivery museum project. [2] [3] [4] [1] The Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre creates a new museum district within Kuwait. Together with the Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Cultural Centre, the cultural centre is part of the new Kuwait ...
The first astronomical texts that were translated into Arabic were of Indian [2] and Persian origin. [3] The most notable was Zij al-Sindhind, a zij produced by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī and Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, who translated an 8th-century Indian astronomical work after 770, with the assistance of Indian astronomers who were at the court of caliph Al-Mansur.