![]() Verse 88:20 is particularly worth highlighting for its use of a word that was deeply associated with flat surfaces.Īrabic word definitions in English are from Lane’s Lexicon of classical Arabic (not to be confused with modern Arabic). In this analysis, we look at direct references to the shape of the Earth in the Qur’an. ![]() Yet the evidence is that the Qur’an supports the flat Earth model (as well as geocentrism).įor plentiful evidence that the earliest Muslims believed in a flat Earth, and a discussion of the failed attempts by ibn Taymiyyah and others to demonstrate that they believed in a round Earth, see the article Did Muhammad and the Earliest Muslims Know the Earth is Round?. If the Qur’an is a letter-by-letter dictation from Allah, it should also concur with this fact that was known throughout the world before its revelation, and it should contradict the flat Earth model widely believed in by the 7 th century Bedouins of Arabia. In fact, contrary to what we are often told, the sphericity of the Earth was common knowledge among early medieval Europeans and the Holy Roman Empire from as early as 395 AD used an orb to represent the spherical Earth. And so did the early Christian scholars Anicius Boëthius (480 – 524 AD), Bishop Isidore of Seville (560 – 636 AD), Bishop Rabanus Maurus (780 – 856 AD), the monk Bede (672 – 735 AD), Bishop Vergilius of Salzburg (700 – 784 AD) and Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274 AD). The Indian astronomer and mathematician, Aryabhata (476 – 550 AD) knew this. ![]() ![]() The Ancient Greeks Pythagoras (570 – 495 BC), Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) and Hipparchus (190 – 120 BC) all knew this. The fact that the Earth is not flat has been known for thousands of years. ![]()
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