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Jabal Ḥirāʾ - جبل حراء

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“[A] mountain three Arabian miles to the north-east of Mecca, often mentioned along with another mountain opposite, T̲h̲abīr [q.v.]. [...] Muḥammad is said to have been in the habit of spending a month each year in a cave on Ḥirāʾ engaged in taḥannut̲h̲, presumably some form of religious devotion, and to have been visited here by an angel [...].” 2

Names

  • جبل النور
  • جبل حراء1
  • حراء1
  • Jabal al-Nūr
  • Jabal Ḥarāʾ
  • Jabal Ḥirāʾ

Place Type

mountain

Location

  • Coordinates (representative):
    • Lat. 21.4075415° Long. 39.8127483°3
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 113, 160, 162.
  • 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 3 Andrew Lookingbill and Ethan Russell (eds.), "https://goo.gl/maps/NqpFVD5HC7wW8Fa86," Google Maps

How to Cite This Entry

“Jabal Ḥirāʾ - جبل حراء ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5323.

Bibliography:

“Jabal Ḥirāʾ - جبل حراء .” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine and Mario Kozah. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5323.

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Entry Title: Jabal Ḥirāʾ - جبل حراء

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  • Haya Al Thani, general editor, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
  • Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, and Mario Kozah, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
  • , entry contributor, “Jabal Ḥirāʾ - جبل حراء ”

Additional Credit:

  • Additional research from Encyclopedia of Islam and the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage by Tobias Scheunchen
  • Data correction and integration from Ibn Battuta, al-Bakri, al-Tabari, Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Jubayr, Isho’yahb III, Al-Muqaddasī, Ibn Ḥawqal, Al-Masūdī, Yāqūt b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥamawī by Tobias Scheunchen
  • Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
  • Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson

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