Did Noah’s ark landed on Mount Ararat or Mount Judi?

 

According to the Bible, Genesis 8:4 says like this, “and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.”
As per qur’an, in Meccan Sura Hud 11:44, it says like this, “Then the word went forth: "O earth! swallow up thy water, and O sky! Withhold (thy rain)!" and the water abated, and the matter was ended. The Ark rested on Mount Judi, and the word went forth: "Away with those who do wrong!”

Jewish Babylonian, Syriac, and Islamic traditions identify Mount Judi or Qardu as a peak near the town of Jazirat ibn Umar (modern Cizre), at the headwaters of the Tigris, near the modern Syrian–Turkish border. Arab historian Al-Masudi (d. 956), reported that the spot where the ark came to rest could be seen in his time. Al-Masudi locates Jabal Judi at 80 parasangs from the Tigris. The description of medieval geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi matches exactly a 2089 m peak north of Silopi that is now called Jabal Judi or Judi Dagh by Muslims and Gardu by Christians and Jews.

Mount Ararat presently is a volcanic massif on the border between Turkey and Armenia and known in Turkish as "Agri Dagh." And at the same time, Al-Judi is one of those that divide Armenia on the south, from Mesopotamia, and that part of Assyria which is inhabited by the Curds, from whom the mountains took the name Cardu, or Gardu, by the Greeks turned into Gordyae, and other names. Looking at the accounts of researchers like Sir Walter Raleigh, George Sale etc., Mount Al-Judi lies within the mountains of Ararat.

I personally think that Bible has made it very clear with its verse from Genesis 8:4, stating, “And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.” It specifically uses the plural of a Mount, i.e. “Mountains”. Henceforth, there is no contradiction within the bible for what the later accounts states or researchers say.