Hûd
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[11:44]
And the word was spoken: "O earth, swallow up thy waters! And, O sky, cease [thy rain]!" And the waters sank into the earth, and the will [of God] was done, and the ark came to rest on Mount Jūdī.
And the word was spoken: "Away with these evildoing folk!"

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* v.44 : This mountain, known in ancient Syriac as Qardū, is situated in the region of Lake Van, almost twenty-five miles north-east of the town Jazīrat Ibn ‘Umar, capital of the modern Syrian district of Al-Jazīrah. It “owes its fame to the Mesopotamian tradition which identifies it, and not Mount Ararat, with the mountain on which Noah’s ark rested.... This localization of the ark’s resting-place...is certainly based on Babylonian tradition” (Encyclopaedia of Islam I, 1059). We should, however, remember that the designation Ararat (the Assyrian Urartu) at one time included the whole area to the south of Lake Van, in which Jabal Jūdī is situated: this might explain the Biblical statement that “the ark rested...upon the mountains of Ararat” (Genesis viii 4).