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« ‘the dawn arose and filled the morning with light’; Ibn ʿAbbās identified the oven as the surface of the earth, since the Arabs call it ‘oven’ (tannūr). Ḥasan, however, said that it was an oven of stone which had belonged to Adam and was then passed on to Noah. Noah was told that when he saw water gushing from the oven, he should embark with his companions. See Thaʿlabī, ʿArāʾis al-majālis, p. 61; trans. Brinner, pp. 95–6. There is a belief among the inhabitants of Iraq that the Masjid of Kufa is the site of the oven, see ʿAlī al-Harawī, Kitāb al-Ishārāt ilā maʿrifat al-ziyārāt (Damascus, »