The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 139
PT. 12 HŪD CH. 11 وَنَادَى نُوحٌ رَّبَّهُ فَقَالَ رَبِّ اِنَّ ابْنِي And Noah cried unto his. 46 Lord and said, 'My Lord, verily, مِنْ أَهْلِي وَإِنَّ وَعْدَكَ الْحَقُّ وَأَنْتَ my son is of my family, and surely, Thy promise is true, and The mountain al-Jūdī is, according to Yaqut al-Hamwī, a long chain of mountains on the eastern side of the Tigris in the province of Mosul (Mu'jam). According to Sale, "al-Jūdī is one of those mountains which divide Armenia on the south from Mesopotamia and that part of Assyria which is inhabited by the Curds, from whom the mountain took the name of Cardu or Gardu, but the Greeks turned it into Gordyaei. . . The tradition which affirms the ark to have rested on these mountains must have been very ancient, since it is the tradition of the Chaldeans themselves (Berosus, apud Joseph. Antiq. ). To confirm it, we are told that the remainders of the ark were to be seen on the Gordyaean mountains. Berosus and Abydenus both declare that there was such a report in their time. . . The relics of the ark were also to be seen here in the time of Epiphanius and we are told the Emperor Heraclius went from the town of Thamanin up to the mountain al-Jūdī and saw the place of the ark. There was also formerly a famous monastery, called the monastery of the ark, upon some of these mountains where the Nestorians used to celebrate a feast-day on the spot where they supposed the ark rested; but in 776 A. D. that monastery was destroyed lightning" (Sale, pp. 179, 180). Again, "Judi (Djūdī) is a mountain mass in the district of Bohtan, about 25 miles N. E. of Jazīrat ibn ‘Omar in 37°, 30' N. Lat. . . It owes its fame to the Mesopotamian tradition, which identifies it, and not Mount Ararat, with the mountain on which Noah's ark rested. It is practically certain from a large number of Armenian and other writers that, down to the 10th century, Mt. Ararat was in no way connected with the Deluge. Ancient Armenian tradition certainly knows nothing of a mountain on which the ark rested; and when one is mentioned in later Armenian literature, this is clearly due to the gradually increasing influence of the Bible which makes the ark rest on the mountains (or a mountain) of Ararat. The highest and best known mountain there is Masik. . . The tradition that Masik was the mountain on which the Ark rested, only begins to find a place in Armenian literature in the 11th and 12th centuries. Older exegesis identified the mountain now called Judi, or according to Christian authorities the mountains of Gordyene, as the apobaterion of Noah (Enc. of Islam. Vol. 1, p. 1059). Babylonian traditions also place the mount al-Jūdī in Armenia (Jew. Enc. under Ararat) and the Bible admits that Babylon was the place where the descendants of Noah lived (Gen. lofty | 11:9). by 1347