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How to navigate using Islamic astronomy without knowing you're doing it

I'm a navigation engineer and I learned that Islamic scholars perfected celestial navigation and I use their principles daily without ever knowing their names.

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Technical competence operates through invisible historical inheritances that remain professionally unacknowledged.

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“Where Are You with Islamic and Arab contributions to science and technology — historical?”

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