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Contrary to what King repeatedly claims, early Muslims had a reliable method for establishing directions, by the use of homing pigeons.
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Direction finding in the Ancient world - | |||
King repeatedly claims that the early Muslims had no way of determining directions in anything like the modern sense. I pointed out above that they could use homing pigeons, and this point has not been answered, or incorporated into the main article, which remains more an apology for the traditional story than a serious attempt to evaluate evidence for and against. See Grok for more details about pigeons in the ancient world. | |||