Jildiyyah Mountain

Jildiyyah mountain.

Jildiyyah Mountain ( جبل جلدية من ) meaning Leather mount (it was also called Gelve and Gelveh) is a mount located in Saudi Arabia , and has a height of 1107 meters (3630 feet). Although the mount is not high by Saudi standards it has come to hold a high profile in Arab culture.

The mountain and the hills surrounding it are sites of important archaeological value, containing many ancient petroglyphs and a number of rock carvings with human and animal back to prehistory.[1] The mountain also appears in Arab poetry,[2]

Jildiyyah Mountain is reported in the writtings ancient Arabs, including the Umayyad period in poetry of Abdulaziz bin Arzazh hamate [3] and in the writing of some medieval Islamic writers historians and geographers such as Abu Ali Ah,[4] and al - Bakri ,[5] and Asamhudy.[6]

Jildiyyah Mountain was an important landmark for pilgrims treaversing the range due to its vissbility from great distances, and during the rule of Al Rashid, the mountain was an important gathering for the start of his invasion.[7]

In the 17th -19th century Orientalists, including: Doughty,[8] and Huber, [9] and Anne Blunt,[10] Moselle described it in their journals and Julius Ouitinj,[11] painted the mountain.

Jildiyyah Mountain is composed of igneous rocks which are mostly brown-purple granite and is divided into the main mountain and several hills to the east, west and south, known as the fingers.

References

  1. ↑ جبل جلدية من
  2. ↑ Hamad Mohammed al - Jasser, Gazetteer of the country of Saudi Arabia: Saudi northern department (Riyadh: Dar Al - Yamamah, 1397, 1977)
  3. ↑ Hamad Mohammed al - Jasser, Gazetteer of the country of Saudi Arabia: Saudi northern department (Riyadh: Dar Al - Yamamah, 1397, 1977)
  4. ↑ Abu Ali AH, comments and anecdotes - study and selection, Section III: Language and placements, achieving: Hamad Al - Jasser (Riyadh: Dar Al - Yamamah, the first edition, 1413) p . 1435
  5. ↑ تعدى إلى الأعلى ل: A b Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al - Bakri Andalusian, Lexicon what Astagam of the country names and placements, achieving Mustafa Saka (Beirut, the world of books, 1983) pp . 198.1034.
  6. ↑ Noordin Ali bin Ahmed Asamhudy, Wafa Wafa news of Dar al - Mustafa Allah bless him and God, the order of Khalid Abdul Ghani Mahfouz (Beirut, Dar scientific books) , p 232
  7. ↑ CM Doughty 1888, Wanderings In Arabia, Arranged & Introduced by Edward Garnett, Vol. I, Duckworth And Co, London, 1908, p.265.
  8. ↑ CM Doughty 1888, Wanderings In Arabia, Arranged & Introduced by Edward Garnett, Vol. I, (Duckworth And Co, London, 1908), p.265
  9. ↑ Charles Hooper, a journey in the middle of the Arabian Peninsula 1878 - 1882: Hamad, fennel, Qassim, Hijaz, translation Elissar HE (Beirut: A Press, 2003), pp . 89-91 p .
  10. ↑ Musil, Alois, Northern Neǧd: a Topographical Itinerary, (American Geograph. Soc., 1928)
  11. ↑ Julius Oteng, a journey inside the Arabian Peninsula, (edit Kerstin and Uwe Pflmn), Translation and Commentary Said Dr. Fayez Al - Saeed (Riyadh , King Abdul Aziz Foundation, 1999) pp . 117-129

Coordinates: 27°40′21″N 42°15′14″E / 27.67250°N 42.25389°E / 27.67250; 42.25389

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