Machine generated contents note: pt. I Geographies of Knowledge -- 1. Deaf Shaykh: Scholarly Astronomy in Late Ottoman-Egyptian Society -- 2. Astronomers and Pashas: Viceregal Imperialism and the Making of State Astronomy -- pt. II Objects of Translation -- 3. Positioning the Watch Hand: Ùlama' and the Making of Mechanical Timekeeping in Cairo -- 4. Positioning the Planets: Translating French Planetary Tables as Ottoman-Islamic Knowledge -- pt. III Islam, Science, and Authority -- 5. Orbits of Print: Astronomy and the Ordering of Science and Religion in the Arabic Press -- 6. Measure of Piety: Making Prayer Times Uniform -- 7. Different Standards: The Ramadan Debates and the Establishment of Lunar Crescent Observation
Summary
Astronomy and science in Ottoman era Egypt, as partly influenced by the publication The Lighthouse, and in scientific research of the time
