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Please note: Many of the very problematic issues and views within Islam and its history are often rejected or subject to widely varying knowledge and opinions (if any) by Muslim cultures and many people who identify as Muslim today

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Non-Muslims
Islamic Persecution Persecution of Ex-Muslims Persecution of Non-Muslims Persecution of Homosexuals Honor Killing Index Jihad and Terrorism Lesser vs Greater Jihad Invitations to Islam Prior to Violence Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam? Ruling on the Permissibility of Martyrdom Operations
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Translations of Arabic/Islamic Media The Islamic Ruling on Music and Singing Join the Caravan Defence of the Muslim Lands Islamic Prophecies Psychology of the Musulman The Turkish Genocides Fatwa on Coke and Soft Drinks Factual Persuasion Fake Conversions - Michael Jackson

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Recently Added Wpływ muzułmańskiego stroju na zdrowie (Polish) Invito a convertirsi all'islam prima dell'attacco (Italian) Taqiyya (Italian) Les origines païennes de l'Islam (French) La religione che cresce di più (Italian) Featured 72 Hüri (Bakirə) (Azerbaijani) Örtünmenin Vahyolunması (Turkish) Olamning Qurondagi manzarasi (Uzbek) Jak Kusto (Islomni qabul qilishi) (Uzbek) (more translations)
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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)

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