Qur'anic verses - The Globe:

This picturesque description of alternating the Day and Night indicates the globe-shaped earth in the clearest terms. The rounded bodies of the planets made this universal phenomena possible to follow a smooth and transitional overlap in a predetermined pattern.

Determining the spherical shape of the earth was not the yield of modern times. In the Islamic medieval era, the globe shape of the earth was one of the fundamental truths.

The scholar, Ibn Hazm (d. 1063 AC), the famous Biblical critic and comparatist of religion, regarded this Qur'anic Verse as sheer evidence on the spherical shape of the earth. The Qur'an laid the foundation for exploring the earth and its integration with the surrounding universe, and liberated all related sciences from myth and superstition.

Behold! In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day,--- there are indeed Signs for men of understanding.
[Qur'an 3:190]

The Qur'an commanded the Muslims to cross the earth in search of God's patterns in nature and in the affairs of mankind unlike those who attempt to extract a pseudo-history from the myths.

Travel through the earth and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.
[Qur'an 6:11]

The Islamic civilization produced invaluable works in the field of astronomy, geography and mathematics. As their state expanded over three continents, their knowledge of the earth grew and in parallel map-making skills developed. Al-Khwarizmi, who flourished under the Abbasid state at Baghdad through 813-833 AC, was first to produce a global geography; Ibn Khurdadhbih (d. 912 AC) gave a full map of the main routes of the Muslim world; Al-Maqdisi (d. 1101 AC) was first to produce maps in natural colours; Al-Idrisi (1100-1165 AC) was a pioneer in this domain and actually built the first model globe from silver for the whole earth locating around it its continents, cities, rivers, lakes, and oceans. In 1154 AC, he published, in his famous book "Nuzhat al Mushtaq", the first world map showing its latitudes and the equator in semicircles indicating the spherical shape of the earth.