Jildiyyah Mountain (جبل جلدية) meaning Leather mount (it was also called Gelve and Gelveh) is a mount located in Saudi Arabia, and has a height of . 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.جبل جلدية من The mountain also appears in Arab poetry.Hamad Mohammed al - Jasser, Gazetteer of the country of Saudi Arabia: Saudi northern department (Riyadh: Dar Al - Yamamah, 1397, 1977)
Jildiyyah Mountain is reported in the writings ancient Arabs, including the Umayyad period in poetry of Abdulaziz bin Arzazh hamate,Hamad Mohammed al - Jasser, Gazetteer of the country of Saudi Arabia: Saudi northern department (Riyadh: Dar Al - Yamamah, 1397, 1977) and in the writing of some medieval Islamic writers historians and geographers such as Abu Ali Ah,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 and al - Bakri,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. and Asamhudy.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
Jildiyyah Mountain was an important landmark for pilgrims traversing the range due to its visibility from great distances, and during the rule of Al Rashid, the mountain was an important gathering for the start of his invasion.CM Doughty 1888, Wanderings In Arabia, Arranged & Introduced by Edward Garnett, Vol. I, Duckworth And Co, London, 1908, p.265.
In the 17th -19th century Orientalists, including: Doughty,CM Doughty 1888, Wanderings In Arabia, Arranged & Introduced by Edward Garnett, Vol. I, (Duckworth And Co, London, 1908), p.265 and Huber,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 . and Anne Blunt,Musil, Alois, Northern Neǧd: a Topographical Itinerary, (American Geograph. Soc., 1928) Moselle described it in their journals and Julius Ouitinj,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 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.
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