Dubai: Soaring high above the Dubai International Financial District (DIFC), the Jumeirah Emirates Towers, one of Dubai’s ...

Abu Dhabi: Astronomers expect the crescent moon marking the beginning of the Islamic month of Dhul Qadah to be visible in ...

Each Islamic month lasts either 29 or 30 days, depending on the moon’s visibility. Consequently, a lunar year is approximately 354 or 355 days long, which is about 10 to 12 days shorter than the solar ...

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: ...

Event festivities will start with an opening ceremony to be held at 6.30pm on May 3 at the Lim Poon Kim Memorial Hall in the ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...

Selim Khandakar's vast collection of 12,000 objects finds a home in prestigious museums, challenging colonial structures and ...

The Indus Waters Treaty was seen as a technical compact, but now it is viewed from the perspective of diplomacy, ...

Doha: Qatar Calendar House announced that Tuesday, April 29, will mark the astronomical beginning of the month of Dhul Qi dah 1446 AH, while Monday, ...

Dr. Salama Al-Mansouri, the research's author, places Ibn al-Shatir's cosmological model at the forefront of astronomical achievements in the Islamic scientific tradition ... of the Ptolemaic models ...