Mount Judi

Coordinates: 37°22′10″N 42°20′39″E / 37.36944°N 42.34417°E / 37.36944; 42.34417
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Mount Judi
Arabic: ٱلْجُودِيّ, romanized: Al-Jūdiyy
Armenian: Ջուդի լեռը
Kurdish: Çiyayê Cûdî
Turkish: Cudi Dağı
The mountain range, as seen from Şırnak in eastern Turkey
Highest point
Elevation2,089 m (6,854 ft)
Listing
Coordinates37°22′10″N 42°20′39″E / 37.36944°N 42.34417°E / 37.36944; 42.34417
Geography
Mount Judi is located in Turkey
Mount Judi
Mount Judi
Location in Turkey
Mount Judi is located in Middle East
Mount Judi
Mount Judi
Location in the Near East
LocationŞırnak, Turkey
Parent rangeArmenian / Taurus / Zagros Mountains

Mount Judi (

Late Antiquity. Only during the Middle Ages was this identification abandoned in favour of another mountain, which had not until then been referred to by any of the native peoples as Mount Ararat (a double-peaked massiv, today the highest mountain in Turkey
and now generally known by that name).

Location

Mount Judi is situated in Turkey's Şırnak Province, near the villages of Derebaşı and Boyunyaka, at latitude: 37°22'28.21" and longitude: 42°28'16.03".[2]

It is a peak northeast of the town of Cizre in south-east Turkey, at the headwaters of the Tigris River, near the modern border with Syria and that of Iraq. A 10th-century historian placed it c. 32 mi (51 km)) from the Tigris.[3]

Etymology and historical discussion

See also: Geography of Turkey, Taurus Mountains, and Zagros Mountains

The mountainous area that Mount Judi is part of, was known as Qardū (Syriac: ܩܪܕܘ) in Syriac texts, Gordyene by Greek and Roman writers, and Kordukh in Armenian.[4]

Syriac, Islamic, and early Christian traditions identify Mount Judi or Qardu as a peak near or northeast of the town of Jazirat ibn 'Umar in (modern

Arab historian Al-Masudi (d. 956), reported that the spot where the ark came to rest could be seen in his time, and that it was located at 80 parasangs (approximately 32 mi (51 km)) from the Tigris. The mountain was historically located in the province of Corduene, south of Lake Van.[3]

The Arabic word al-Jūdiyy (ٱلْجُودِيّ), originates from the Syriac word Gudo (ܓܘܕܐ) meaning "Mounds" or "Elevations".

Orientalist George Sale said:[6]

This mountain [al-Judi] is one of those that divide

Elmacin. 1. 1. c. 1 ).

— George Sale
, 1734; p. 214-215

Latin: Tamonitis or Tamoritis), and to the Armenians as (Armenian: Թմորիկ‘, romanized: Tmorik‘).[9] Sale goes on to say that there was once a famous Christian monastery on the mountain, but that this was destroyed by lightning in the year 776 AD, following which:[6]

the credit of this tradition hath declined, and given place to another, which obtains at present, and according to which the ark rested on

Mount Masis
, in Armenia, called by the Turks Agri Dagi.

— Sale, 1734; p. 214-215

The Arabic name of the mountain, Judi, has also been proposed to be a corruption of the

Classical Syriac: ܩܪܕܘ, romanized: Qardō written in Arabic with the Arabic letters waw (و) and raa (ر) being confused in early Islamic manuscripts due to their early resemblance, and then making its way into the Qur’an and Islamic tradition. This is supported by the fact that only in the Syriac Bible is the mountain which Noah's ark rested on called Qardō, as opposed to Ararat in other Bibles.[10]

Religious traditions

Further information: Cizre § Classical and early medieval period, and Sennacherib § Resolving the Babylonian problem
Cast of a rock relief of Sennacherib from the foot of the mountain, near Cizre

Christianity

Further information: Armenian highlands and Urartu
Depiction of Noah's ark landing on the mountain top, from the North French Hebrew Miscellany (13th century)
In 1909, Gertrude Bell photographed the ruins of a monastery on the summit of Cudi Dagh

The

Near Eastern flood legends, but following the Christianization of the Syrians from about the second century AD, it became associated with the Mountains of Ararat, where Noah landed according to Genesis, and from Syria this legend also spread to the Armenians. The Armenians did not traditionally associate Noah's landing site with Mount Ararat, known natively as Masis, and continued to associate Noah's ark with Mount Judi, until the 11th century.[11]

The biblical Ararat is thought to be a variation of Urartu, an ancient term for the region north of ancient Assyria, which encompasses the Armenian plateau. According to Josephus, the Armenians in the first century showed the remains of Noah's ark at a place called αποβατηριον "Place of Descent" (Armenian: Նախիջեւան, Nakhichevan, Ptolemy's Ναξουανα), about 60 miles (97 km) southeast of the summit of Mount Ararat (c. 39°04′N 45°05′E / 39.07°N 45.08°E / 39.07; 45.08).[12] The "mountains of Ararat" in Genesis have become identified in later (medieval) Christian tradition with the peak now known as "Mount Ararat" itself, a volcanic massif now in modern Turkey and known in Turkish as "Agri Dagh" (Ağrı Dağı).

Islam

See also: Noah in Islam

According to the Qur'an (11:44),[1] the final resting place of the vessel was called "Judi", without the word "mountain".

Then the word went forth: "O earth! swallow up thy water, and O sky! Withhold (thy rain)!" and the water abated, and the matter was ended. The Ark rested on Al-Judi, and the word went forth: "Away with those who do wrong!

— Quran, 11:44[1]

The ninth century

Al-Mas'udi (c. 896–956) recorded that the spot where it came to rest could be seen in his time. Al-Mas'udi also said that the Ark began its voyage at Kufa in central Iraq, and sailed to Mecca, where it circled the Kaaba, before finally travelling to Judi. Yaqut al-Hamawi, also known as Al-Rumi, placed the mountain "above Jazirat ibn Umar, to the east of the Tigris," and mentioned a mosque built by Noah that could be seen in his day, and the traveller Ibn Battuta passed by the mountain in the 14th century.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Quran 11:44 (Translated by Yusuf Ali)
  2. ^ Mount Judi at Geoview. Accessed 15 March 2024.
  3. ^ a b c Lewis, J. P. (December 1984), Noah and the Flood: In Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Tradition, The Biblical Archaeologist, p. 237(subscription required)
  4. ISBN 978-90-04-11465-4
    . Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  5. ISBN 978-0-9778606-9-2
    .
  6. ^ a b c Sale, George (1734). The Koran. Posner Memorial Collection.
  7. ^ Toumanoff, Cyril (1963). "The Orontids of Armenia". Studies in Christian Caucasian History. Georgetown University Press. pp. 323–378. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  8. ISBN 3-88226-485-3
    . Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  9. ^ Strabo. "14.5". Geographica. Vol. XI.
  10. ^ Mingana, Alphonse (2004). Syriac Influence on the Style of the Kur'an. p. 97.
  11. JSTOR 3152410
    .
  12. ^ Conybeare (1901)

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