The Philosophy of Time and Time Telling Devices in the Early Islamic World

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents VII
3. Preface 7
4. Complete list of papers presented at the conference 9
5. The Calendar in the Flood Narrative 13
6. Sabbatical Calendar and Priestly Narrative 33
7. Mesopotamian Influence on Persian Sky-watching and Calendar. Part I. Mithra, Shamash and Solar Festivals 51
8. The Philosophy of Time and Time Telling Devices in the Early Islamic World 63
9. On Timekeeping by the Lunar Mansions in Medieval Egypt 75
10. Music in the Iconography of Venus’ Children 89
11. Chronotypic Variation among Early and Middle Neolithic Societes in Poland 101
12. Ethnographic Correlates of One Type of Soli-lunar Alignment: The Doubling of Winter Solstice Sunset with the Southern (Minor or Major) Standstill Moonsets 117
13. The Calendar of Coligny and Related Calendars 133
14. The Medieval Liturgical Calendar, Sacred Space, and the Orientations of Churches 139
15. The Finnish Wooden Calendars and Some Aspects of Folk Knowledge in the Middle Ages 149
16. The Observation of Celestial Bodies and Time Counting in the Lithuanian Folk Culture 167
17. Acknowledgements 185
18. Abbreviations 185
19. Unpublished sources 187