The Fatwa: Grand Mufti Sheikh Ibn Baaz: The Sun Revolves Around the EarthIn a 2000 Fatwa titled “The Transmitted and Sensory Proofs of the Rotation of the Sun and Stillness of the Earth”, Saudi Arabian Grand Mufti Sheikh Ibn Baaz asserted that the earth was flat and disk-like and that the sun revolved around it. He had insisted that satellite images to the contrary were nothing but a Western conspiracy against the Islamic world. Source: Al-Ahram Weekly Issue 477, 13-19 April, 2000.