Mount Judi

Mount Judi likewise spelled Guti and Kutu, as indicated by Early Christian and Islamic convention, is Noah's apobaterion or "Place of Descent", the area where the Ark stopped after the Great Flood. The Quranic custom is like the Judeo-Christian legend. The recognizable proof of Mount Judi as the arrival site of the ark held on in Syriac and Armenian convention all through Late Antiquity yet was surrendered for the custom comparing the scriptural area with the most elevated pile of the district, Mount Ararat.

Jewish Babylonian, Syriac, and Islamic customs distinguish Mount Judi or Qardu as a top close to the town of Jazirat ibn Umar, at the headwaters of the Tigris, close to the advanced Syrian– Turkish fringe. Middle Easterner student of history Al-Masudi, reported that the spot where the ark stopped could be found in his time. Al-Masudi finds Jabal Judi at 80 parasangs from the Tigris. Mount Judi was verifiably situated in the territory of Corduene, south of Lake Van.

The connection of a portion of the spellings is clear. The cause of Judi is less clear. It is normally deciphered as a defiled adaptation of a similar name, by means of al-gurdi. The recommendation that the two names are at last the equivalent was first exceptional by the English Orientalist George Sale in his interpretation of the Qur'an distributed in 1734.