Jabal Ḥirāʾ - جبل حراء
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Jabal Ḥirāʾ; جبل حراء; Jabal Ḥarāʾ; Jabal al-Nūr; جبل النور; حراء
[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 [...].
location: 21.4075415 39.8127483
identifier: https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5323
identifier: http://syriaca.org/place/5323
identifier: https://goo.gl/maps/NqpFVD5HC7wW8Fa86
Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr Ibn Jubayr M.J. de Goeje 113, 160, 162
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition P. Bearman
https://goo.gl/maps/NqpFVD5HC7wW8Fa86 Google Maps Andrew Lookingbill Ethan Russell