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Dar al-Magana (Arabic for "clockhouse") is a house in Fes, Morocco, built by the Marinid Sultan Abu Inan Faris which holds a weight-powered water clock. The muwaqqit〔a muwaqqit is the officer charged with the regulation and maintenance of the clocks and with communicating the correct times of prayer to the muezzin. (Renaud, H. P.-J. "Astronomie et Astrologie marocaine", in: ''Hesperis'' XXIX, 1942 pp. 41 -63)〕 Abou al-Hassan Ibn Ali Ahmed Tlemsani〔In 1308 Abou al Hassan Ali ibn Ahmed had built (together with Ibn al Fahham) the Tlemcen water clock with its automata and astronomical indication. () (third section, retrieved 20 November 2008)〕 was responsible for building the clock, which was finished on 6 May 1357. The Dar al-Magana is opposite the Bou Inania Madrasa and connected to this school. The clock consists of 13 windows and platforms carrying brass bowls. The motion of the clock was presumably maintained by a kind of small cart which ran from left to right behind the twelve doors. At one end, the cart was attached to a rope with a hanging weight; at the other end to a rope with a weight that floated on the surface of a water reservoir that was drained at a regular pace. Each hour one of the doors opened; at the same time a metal ball was dropped into one of the twelve brass bowls. The rafters sticking out of the building above the doors (identical to the rafters of the Bou Inania Madrasa) supported a small roof to shield the doors and bowls.〔Tazi, Rajae, "L’horloge Hydraulique Bouanania, une énigme enfin perçue par des spécialistes du patrimoine" in ''Jeunes Du Maroc, Portail des Jeunes'', December 16, 2004〕 The bowls have been removed since 2004 and the clock mechanism 〔Its mechanism is presumed to be similar to that of the Clock of Ridwan al-Saati of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, the Andalusian water clocks (a.o. in Toledo, described by Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi, reconstructed by the Museo Nacional de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia in Madrid in 1995) and the water clock described by Al-Jazari which was reconstructed by the London Science Museum in 1976 () and still on display at the Nationaal Beiaard en Natuurmuseum in Asten, Netherlands (see under Beiaardcollectie, Astronomische kunstuurwerken).()〕 is being reconstructed by ADER, a foundation for the reconstruction of monuments in Fes. ==See also== *Clock of Ridwan al-Saati *Elephant clock *Dar al-Muwaqqit 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dar al-Magana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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