Abu Muqri (or Miqra) Mohammed ibn Ali al-Battiwi () ( fl. 1331) was a Moroccan

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who wrote a poem () on the calendar, astronomy and the determination of the hours of Moslem prayer. According to the German orientalist

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, al-Battiwi was the commanding general of the Marinid sultan of Morocco,

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. His work was commented upon in the 15th century by Abd al-Rahman al-Jadiri, the (time-keeper) at the

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Mosque, and the mathematician Al-Qalasadi.G.S. Colin and H.P.J. Renaud, "Note sur le "muwaqqit" marocain Abu Muqri ou mieux Abu Miqra-al Battiwi", ''Hespéris'' XXV (1938), p. 94-6 He was a native of the

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region of Morocco.

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