Jabal al-Nour
Jabal al-Nour is a mountain near Mecca in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia. The mountain houses the grotto or cave of Hira. It is here where the Islamic prophet Muhammad is said to have received his first revelation of the Quran from the angel Jibra'il, which consists of the first five ayat of Surah Al-Alaq.- Peak rising to 513 metres (1,683 feet)
- Description: Holy mountain in Saudia Arabia
- Also known as“Gabal Alnoor”“Jabal an Nur”“Jabal Nur”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cave of Hira and Al Adil Cemetery.
Cave of Hira
Cave
Jabal al-Nour is a mountain near Mecca in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia.
Al Adil Cemetery
Cemetery
The Al-Adl cemetery is one of the earliest and largest of the six cemeteries in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Bay’ah Mosque
Mosque
The Bay'ah Mosque, also known as the Mosque of 'Aqaba…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wadi Jalil and Haram.
Wadi Jalil
Neighborhood
Wadi Jalil is a village in the Makkah Province, in western Saudi Arabia.
Haram
Neighborhood
Haram is one of several similar words originating from the triliteral Semitic root Ḥ-R-M.
Jabal al-Nour
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Latitude
21.45778° or 21° 27′ 28″ north
Longitude
39.85973° or 39° 51′ 35″ east
Open location code
7GHXFV55+4V
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Jabal al-Nour” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل النور”
- Arabic: “جبل حراء”
- Armenian: “Ջաբալ ալ-Նուր”
- Bengali: “জাবালে নূর”
- Cebuano: “Jabal an Nūr”
- Central Bikol: “Jabal al-Nour”
- Central Kurdish: “کێوی نوور”
- Chinese: “光明山”
- Dutch: “Gebergte van Noer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل النور”
- Esperanto: “Ĝabal an-Nur”
- French: “Djébel el-Nour”
- French: “Jabal al-Nour”
- German: “Jabal an Nur”
- Hebrew: “ג’בל א-נור”
- Hindi: “जबल अल-नूर”
- Hindi: “जबल नूर”
- Hindi: “नूर पहाड़”
- Indonesian: “Jabal an-Nur”
- Italian: “Jabal al-Nur”
- Japanese: “ジャバル・アル・ヌール山”
- Kannada: “ಜಬಲುನ್ನೂರ್, ಜಬಲೆ ನೂರ್”
- Kannada: “ಜಬಲ್ ನೂರ್”
- Kashmiri: “جبل النوٗر”
- Kashmiri: “گاشُک پہاڑ”
- Ladin: “Jabal al-Nour”
- Latvian: “Džebel en Nūrs”
- Malay: “Jabal al-Nour”
- Malay: “Jabal an-Nur”
- Malayalam: “ജബൽ അൽ നൂർ (പർവ്വതം)”
- Malayalam: “ജബൽ അൽ നൂർ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jabal al-Nour”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jabal al-Nour”
- Norwegian: “Jabal al-Nour”
- Persian: “جبل النور”
- Portuguese: “Jabal al-Nour”
- Portuguese: “Monte Anur”
- Russian: “Джабаль аль-Нур”
- Slovenian: “Džabal al-Nur”
- Slovenian: “Jabal al-Nur”
- Spanish: “Jabal al-Nour”
- Spanish: “Montaña de la Luz”
- Spanish: “Yabal al-Nur”
- Swedish: “Jabal al-Nour”
- Thai: “ญะบะลุนนูร”
- Turkish: “Nur Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “Джабаль аль-Нур”
- Urdu: “جبل نور”
- Uzbek: “Jabal al-Nur”
- Venetian: “Jabal al-Nur”
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