Jabal

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Jabal is the Arabic (جبل) word for mountain (also transliterated jebel, gebel and djebel). It may refer to:

  • Jabal al-Tariq or Rock of Gibraltar — "Mount of Tariq", named after Tariq ibn-Ziyad
  • Jabal al-Thawr, the mountain visited by Muhammad during the Migration to Medina.
  • Jabal al-Nour, the "Mountain of Light" where the prophet Muhamamd saw first received revelation from Angel Jibreel
  • Jabal, son of Lamech, a descendant of Cain
  • Jabalpur, a city in central India
  • Jibal, an emirate in a mountainous part of Iran in Buwayhid times
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