When the day started in the evening

Niki GAMM ISTANBUL

he last observatory in the Islamic world, which was also the first and only observatory in the Ottoman Empire, was constructed by Takiyuddin Mehmed bin Maruf, who had been invited to Istanbul from Egypt on the order of Sultan Murat III (1574-1595).

What is time? It is how we segment our days, years, centuries and millennia – to give a bare-bones definition of it. We’ve just passed into a new year based on how years are calculated in today’s society. But what about the past? And how is it that almost 100 percent of the world has accepted a calendar based on European/Christian calculations? And what if you lived in an Islamic culture instead?

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