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*[[Parallelism Between the Qur'an and Judeo-Christian Scriptures|Parallelism Between the Qur'an and Other Scriptures]]
*[[Child Marriage in the Qur'an]]
*[[Child Marriage in the Qur'an]]
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*[[Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in the Quran]]
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*[[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:People of the Book|People of the Book]]
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*[[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Jihad|Jihad]]
*[[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Heaven|Heaven]]
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Islamic Views on the Shape of the Earth

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Islamic scriptures imply, adhere to, and describe a flat-Earth cosmography (arranged in a geocentric system) which conceives of the earth as existing in the form of a large plane or disk. While some early Islamic authorities maintained that the earth existed in the shape of a "ball", such notions are entirely absent in the earliest Islamic scriptures.

Nonetheless, as knowledge of the Earth's spherical form has existed to greater or lesser degree since at least classical Greek (4th Century BCE), it has been frequently argued in recent times that the early scholars of Islam, the first followers of Muhammad, and indeed Islamic scripture itself supported the spherical-earth model, although evidence for these claims is lacking. (read more)