{"id":16399,"date":"2012-01-26T08:12:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T08:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=16399"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:53:37","slug":"islam-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/islam-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Islam <\/strong>itself does not offer any evidence in support of Atlantis\u2019 existence. However, the Qur\u2019an was not intended as a history book(a)<\/sup>. Nevertheless, several renowned medieval Arabic writers such as Al-Biruni<\/a>, Al-<\/a>Idrisi and Al-Mas\u2019udi <\/a>have been referred to as offering indirect but relevant evidence for the submergence of Atlantis in the Mediterranean following the breaching of a dam at Gibraltar<\/a>. A more contemporary Iraqi scholar, Salah Salim Ali<\/a>, in a twenty-page essay entitled Arabic<\/em> References to Plato\u2019s Lost Atlantis<\/em>[077<\/a><\/span>]<\/sup>, discusses a possible link between Atlantis and \u201cthe City of Brass<\/a>\u201d referred to by medieval Arabic writers.<\/p>\r\n

In 2014 an Indonesian website offered a more recent view of the Qur\u2019an and Atlantis(b)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n

Adlantis was imagined by Ignatius Donnelly<\/a> to be another form of Atlantis. He noted that the first inhabitants of Arabia were known as Adites.<\/a> They were named after Ad who was fourth in line from Noah. Without any convincing reason, Donnelly states [<\/u><\/sup>0021<\/sup><\/a>.276<\/sup>]<\/u><\/sup> \u00a0that \u201cthese Adites were probably the people of Atlantis or Adlantis.\u201d <\/em>\u00a0The Qur’an (89:6-9) does refer to Ad(c)<\/sup> – Do you not see what your Lord did with ‘Ad-Iram of the Columns whose like was not created in any land?<\/em> Iram has been identified as the city of Ubar discovered some decades ago(e)<\/sup>, but, while Ad, Iram and Ubar may refer to the same place, there is no way that either can be linked to Plato’s Atlantis.<\/p>\r\n

It is claimed that the Qur’an contains scientific knowledge that was not known fourteen hundred years ago(d)<\/sup>. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

(a)<\/sup> The Qur\u2019an on the Lost City of Atlantis \u2013 Understanding Islam -under construction (archive.org)<\/a>
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(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160420183154\/https:\/\/www.keajaibandunia.web.id\/3803\/benua-atlantis-menurut-al-quran.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n

(c)<\/sup> http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220701134018\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-3021\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(d)<\/sup> Miracles Of Quran. (miracles-of-quran.com)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

(e)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.quranandscience.com\/quran-science\/historical\/327-the-people-of-ad-and-ubar-the-atlantis-of-the-sands<\/a>
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Islam itself does not offer any evidence in support of Atlantis\u2019 existence. However, the Qur\u2019an was not intended as a history book(a). Nevertheless, several renowned medieval Arabic writers such as Al-Biruni, Al-Idrisi and Al-Mas\u2019udi have been referred to as offering indirect but relevant evidence for the submergence of Atlantis in the Mediterranean following the breaching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[308,4510,3039,2524,20,108,4633,3038,107,309,243],"class_list":["post-16399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ad","tag-adites","tag-arabic-references","tag-city-of-brass","tag-gibraltar-dam","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-iram","tag-islam","tag-noah","tag-quran","tag-salah-salim-ali"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16399"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66904,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399\/revisions\/66904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}