Jebel

The government continues attacking for the last six months from the different areas in Jebel Marra Mountains and for that reason, the humanitarian situation is very bad for the people … and many of them are in very bad conditions.

Rebel Urges U.N. Delegation to Investigate Renewed Attacks on Darfur 2010

One notable Berber who took the banner of the Caliphate was none other than Tariq Bin Ziad, the illustrious commander of the invading forces that landed in Spain and defeated the Visigoth Christian armies around 715 C.E. In his honor, the rock dominating the passage to Iberia was called Jebel Tarik, mutating in European languages to Gibraltar.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

When the heirs of the Visigothic king, Witiza, requested help from the Moors of N Africa against the usurper Roderick, Tarik, with his Moorish army, crossed (711) from Africa to Gibraltar (originally named for him, in Arabic, Jebel-al-Tarik; i.e., Tarik's mountain).

Islam's War to Save the World Lionheart 2001

When the heirs of the Visigothic king, Witiza, requested help from the Moors of N Africa against the usurper Roderick, Tarik, with his Moorish army, crossed (711) from Africa to Gibraltar (originally named for him, in Arabic, Jebel-al-Tarik; i.e., Tarik's mountain).

Archive 2001-01-01 Lionheart 2001

Hommel & Hilprecht (Die Insel der Seligen) have identified the gateway through which Gilgamesh (the bright Day-God) had to make his way to the West: “the Twin Peaks” of Central Arabia, the mountain of Sunset, now called Jebel Shammar.

The light that draws the flower James Greer 2011

Dr. Thomson (The Land and the Book, vol.ii. p. 158) locates it on the north-west corner of a mount now called Jebel ed Duhy, one hour's ride from the foot of Mount

Barnes New Testament Notes 1949

To the south, the hills of solid salt, called Jebel

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

The western peak is called Jebel el Qafsah, "Mount of the Leap", or "of the Precipice".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

At the present day it is called Jebel esh-Sheikh, "the chief mountain," and Jebel eth-Thelj, "snowy mountain."

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

Highness the Khediv: the former told the Arabs that in his books the height was called the Jebel el-Núr ( "Mountain of Light"), a title which apparently he had first applied to the Jebel el-Lauz; and the latter climbed to the mountain-top.

The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855