Jūdī, Cudi, Cûdî, Qardū | |
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The mountain range, seen from Şırnak.
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 2,089 m (6,854 ft) |
Coordinates | 37°22′10″N 42°20′39″E / 37.36944°N 42.34417°ECoordinates: 37°22′10″N 42°20′39″E / 37.36944°N 42.34417°E |
Geography | |
Location | Şırnak Province, Southeastern Anatolia Region, Turkey |
Parent range | Anatolia |
Mount Judi (Arabic: الجوديّ al-Ǧūdiyy, Aramaic: קרדו Qardū,Kurdish: Cûdî, Syriac: ܩܪܕܘ Qardū,Turkish: Cudi), according to very Early Christian and Islamic tradition (based on the Qur'an, Hud:44), is Noah's apobaterion or "Place of Descent", the location where the Ark came to rest after the Great Flood.
The Quranic tradition is similar to the Judeo-Christian legend. The identification of Mount Judi as the landing site of the ark persisted in Syriac and Armenian tradition throughout Late Antiquity but was abandoned for the tradition equating the biblical location with the highest mountain of the region, Mount Ararat.
Jewish Babylonian, Syriac, and Islamic traditions identify Mount Judi or Qardu as a peak near the town of Jazirat ibn Umar (modern Cizre), at the headwaters of the Tigris, near the modern Syrian–Turkish border. Arab historian Al-Masudi (d. 956), reported that the spot where the ark came to rest could be seen in his time. Al-Masudi locates Jabal Judi at 80 parasangs from the Tigris.