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Jabal Tansaf

جبل تانسف

A mountain reached in two stages from Jabal al-Tilmun, with a smooth face and a narrow crack. The author relates, as a widely known account, that birds come at a fixed time of the year, put their heads into the crack and die there. He says the report is recorded in many books; he does not verify it himself. 1

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Mount Tansaf is reached two stages from al-Tilmun. It has a smooth edge with a narrow crack in it. Al-Idrisi relates a well-known report about it: birds come at a fixed time of the year and put their heads into the crack, and they die. He says the report is recorded in many books, and that he had not verified it himself. 2

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 127
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.127
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islam.museum contributors. “Jabal Tansaf”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/jabal-tansaf/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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