Mariam Al-Ijliya Research Paper

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Mariam Al-Ijliya lived in the tenth century in Aleppo, Syria. Her dad was a disciple to a well known astrolabe creator in Baghdad and she thusly turned into his understudy. Her hand-created outlines were so mind boggling and inventive that from 944 AD TO 967 AD, she was utilized by the leader of the city, Sayf Al Dawla.
Astrolabes were utilized to decide the position of the sun and the planets and were thusly utilized as a part of the fields of astrology, astronomy and horoscopes. Muslims utilized it to discover the Qibla (The direction of the kaba) , decide prayer times and the beginning days of Ramadan and Eid. Through her invention of developing the astrolabe, now people use compass, satellite navigation.

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