Muslims scholars want to replace Greenwich with Makkah Time (OP)
A proposal to replace GMT is made at a conference titled “Makkah, the Centre of the Earth, Theory and Practice” attended by Muslim clerics and scientists.
Doha (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Makkah time in lieu of GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth. The call was issued at a conference held in the Gulf state of Qatar under the title: Makkah, the Centre of the Earth, Theory and Practice.
One geologist at the Qatar conference said Makkah’s longitude is perfectly aligned with magnetic north and should therefore replace the English city, which has been measuring time zones since 1884, when the United Kingdom was a major colonial power, something that ought to change.
Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawya cleric, said modern science had at last provided evidence that Makkah was the true centre of the Earth, proof, he said, of the greatness of the Muslim “qibla”—the Arabic word for the direction Muslims turn to when they pray.
Participants of the conference also reviewed the “Makkah Watch,” an invention by a French Muslim which reportedly rotates counter-clockwise and displays Makkah's direction from any point in the world.
The conference is part of a trend called “Ijaz al-Qur‘an” or “miraculous nature of the holy text,” which tries to find precedents for modern science from passages in the Qur‘an.
At first i didnt realy understand it, but that is literally the centre, the Globe in that position shows all the lands. You cant tilt the Earth in any other way to make all the lands show, accept that Makkah is in the centre!
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But we are here speaking of geographical point of view!
Now you speak of cultures and history!
Sorry, I thought that was the question.
The Earth is sphere-like, it doesn't have a geographical centre. There's the poles though.
The centre of the Earth is somewhere in the inner core.
This might be a helpful link.. specially from para 3.1.
I can't find anything.
The entire thing is not about Mecca being the centre of the earth, it never says that, not even in 3.1.
What were you trying to say?
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that diagram proves nothing but the fact that in America you have to face north to pray towards qibla rather than southeast as it seems from a mecator map.
At first i didnt realy understand it, but that is literally the centre, the Globe in that position shows all the lands. You cant tilt the Earth in any other way to make all the lands show, accept that Makkah is in the centre!
It is intentionally distorted so that all the land shows at the same time, and so that Makkah is in the centre. They needed to distort it so the diagram would work. Somebody just took it out of the proper context and pretended it was proof that Makkah is at the 'centre' of the world.
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