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This reconstruction of the 14th-century water clock from the Dar al-Muwaqqit of the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque (Fez, Morocco) is now on display at the Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam.
The Dar al-Muwaqqit is a room that would have been used by the mosque's timekeeper (muwaqqit) whose job was to calculate the correct times of prayer (according to the position of the sun on the horizon) and to relay these to the muezzin who would perform the call to prayer (adhan) from the minaret to call the faithful to prayer.
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