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→‎The heavens and the Earth: Added a few of the Arabic terms, mostly to clarify that paradise 'jannah' is different to the heavens as the skies 'samaa2' which is a mistake I see made often online. And added the direct reference to Corpus Coranicum site for the commentary on 23:17.

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→‎The locations of Heaven and Hell: Added brief traditional and academic view of the seven paths (ṭarāiqa) in Q23:17 in Quranic/Islamic cosmology. As well as a brief reference from the Tabataba'i and Mirsadri (2016) paper on water being stored in the Earth below the ground.

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→‎The places of ascent: Just checked out the Corpus Coranicum Entry on this verse after uploading the previous update.. and thought worth adding the extra point and it's use elsewhere in the Qur'an as a tangible stairway. Linked to academic website.

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→‎The Sky-ways (asbāb) of the Heavens: Added a small section on the one-off mention of 'lord of the ladders/stairs/ways of ascent'

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→‎The gates of the heavens: Added in Wheeler and Noegel's link with 'fiery' underworld and boiling waters from below in the flood of Noah, as well as other verses which support this idea.

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→‎The throne ('arsh) of Allāh: Mentioned the throne rests on the waters, and gave a contemporary apocryphal parallel for this idea.

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→‎The locations of Heaven and Hell: Added small commentary on heaven and hell linked by a wall and gate, and the contradiction between other images/descriptions of jannah in the Quran by Sinai.

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→‎The gates of the heavens: Added a section on 'The Sky-ways (asbāb) of the Heavens', largely based off Kevin van Bladels 2007 paper, but also quotes some others scholars who support this interpretation. Also changed the Allah's to Allāh's.

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→‎The scale (al-mīzān): Added a section on the gates of heaven in Qu'ranic cosmology with some recent comments from Nicolai Sinai, Sean Anthony (and Tesei and Neuwirth) and it's links to the biblical celestial ocean separated by a firmament.

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→‎The locations of Heaven and Hell: Added a small point how the rivers of paradise are always described as running 'below/underneath' the gardens, which links in with antiquity imagery of paradise being connected to Earth via rivers as discussed in the paragraph.

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→‎Towers: Just removed some blank space left from the previous update and expanded the bold section of Quran quote to cover the full relevant section.

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→‎The stars, planets, and meteors: I have added a section on the interpretation of Q15:16 referring to towers, which may well have been part of traditional Islamic cosmology - and provided academic references.

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→‎Solid firmaments held without visible pillars: Added a short sentence explaining the meaning of the word below, to clarify the meaning of the quote that the sky is held up by Gods power alone rather than a physical thing like columns which might not be obvious from the text.

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→‎Solid firmaments held without visible pillars: Have added a small piece more evidence on the rivers of paradise being connected to Earth with 'sahih' hadith, and scholar Tommo Tesei's article explaining their link with Quran 18:61.

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→‎The Earth and its waters: I have added in a Bukhari verse on the seven earths here, as I believe this is more relevant to the seven Earths being one upon the other in Islamic cosmology than the hadith currently there.

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Rejected the last text change (by CPO675) and restored revision 137492 by Lightyears: That site is a very mixed bag with some good content but lots of mistakes. In this case Q.55.22 and 35.12 show these are both meant to be earthly seas. The author is also not clear enough when he adds his own comments to translations. The hadiths may be useful if we ever have a page on hadith cosmology but are of limited evidential value for the Quran itself.

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→‎External links: I have added a link to an external article that does a great job of breaking down the sweet and salty oceans 'primeval waters' in the Islamic universe (which expands upon this page), breaking down the Arabic and comparing to the biblical passages/cosmology. As well as explicitly stating the scientific errors of it.

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→‎The stars, planets, and meteors: I have added in a few more verses covering stars as a protective function for more context. And linked the 'Science and the seven Earths' page which has more hadith on this topic.

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→‎See also: I have added a link in the 'See also' section to the 'Scientific Errors in the Quran' page here as I believe it is highly relevant to the Cosmology pages

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→‎See also: Have added a YouTube video covering this topic, who has many video's explaining the Arabic on verses related to Cosmology (among other things)

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→‎The throne ('arsh) of Allah

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→‎The stars, the sun, and the moon

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