与在人类历史上其他的宗教社会不一样,在伊斯兰世界,宗教仪式各个方面的行为藉助于科学的处置。历法的编制,具有天文定义的祈祷时间的校准、朝向麦加克尔白圣堂的祭祀方向的确定——这些至今与穆斯兰生活有关的伊斯兰传统科学的课题,每个都有可以上溯将近1400年的历史。但是中世纪伊斯兰科学家所提倡的方法和宗教律学者所倡导的方法截然不同,而我们现在关于这些方面的知识主要是根据近二十年来对穆斯林人大量文献遗产的一小部分研究结果。 Unlike other religious societies in human history, all aspects of religious rites in the Islamic world are manipulated with the aid of science. Calendars, Calibration with Astronomical Definition of Prayer Times, Determination of Sacrificial Orientation Toward Meccaque's Sacrament of Sacrifice - Each of these topics of Islamic traditional science so far related to the life of the Muslims, dating back nearly 1400 years History. However, the methods advocated by medieval Islamic scientists are very different from those advocated by religious scholars, and our current knowledge of these aspects is mainly based on a small part of the research on the vast literature heritage of Muslims in the past two decades.