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→Earth as spread out and flat: I have added a section showing when the spherical model of the Earth was known by the caliphate. The first link is just to wikipedia to show what Plotemy's Almagest is, (a scholarly link is not needed due to just providing a quick summary of what it is here). The second link is to download an article from scholar of Islamic astronomy (David A King), stating when the translations from Greek took place and so would have been known far before al-Jalalayans tasfir.
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{{Quote|{{Quran|88|20}}|And at the Earth, how it is spread out?}} | {{Quote|{{Quran|88|20}}|And at the Earth, how it is spread out?}} | ||
Even far beyond the 8th/9th century when the Abbasid Caliph's translated Ptolemy's Almagest (a 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths - stating the Earth is a sphere)<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almagest</ref> from Greek at least five times<ref>https://www.academia.edu/attachments/55944098/download_file?s=portfolio</ref>, once into Syriac, and the others into Arabic, the issue was far from settled. | |||
For example, the Qur'anic commentary of al-Jalalayn agrees with this understanding of the verse saying that legal scholars at his time agree that the earth is flat and not spherical. | |||
{{Quote|1=[http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=88&tAyahNo=20&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2 Tafsir al-Jalalayn for verse 88:20]|2=And the earth, how it was laid out flat?, and thus infer from this the power of God, exalted be He, and His Oneness? The commencing with the [mention of] camels is because they are closer in contact with it [the earth] than any other [animal]. As for His words sutihat, 'laid out flat', this on a literal reading suggests '''that the earth is flat, which is the opinion of most of the scholars''' of the [revealed] Law, and '''not a sphere as astronomers (ahl al-hay'a) have it''', even if this [latter] does not contradict any of the pillars of the Law.}} | {{Quote|1=[http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=88&tAyahNo=20&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2 Tafsir al-Jalalayn for verse 88:20]|2=And the earth, how it was laid out flat?, and thus infer from this the power of God, exalted be He, and His Oneness? The commencing with the [mention of] camels is because they are closer in contact with it [the earth] than any other [animal]. As for His words sutihat, 'laid out flat', this on a literal reading suggests '''that the earth is flat, which is the opinion of most of the scholars''' of the [revealed] Law, and '''not a sphere as astronomers (ahl al-hay'a) have it''', even if this [latter] does not contradict any of the pillars of the Law.}} | ||