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This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice.

An observatory and a lighthouse form the nexus of this major new investigation of science, religion, and the state in late Ottoman Egypt. Astronomy, imperial bu

"This book is a study of the Muslim world's entanglement with colonial modernity. More specifically, it is an historical examination of the development of the l

Salafis explicitly base their legitimacy on continuity with the Quran and the Sunna, and their distinctive practices—praying in shoes, wearing long beards and