a mountain near Mecca in Arabia, held in high Aragon. veneration by the Mahometans. A visit to it constitutes a necessary part of the great pilgrimage. (See Mecca.) The mountain consists of a granite rock about 150 feet high, which is ascended by staircases, partly cut in the rock and partly composed of solid masonry. On this hill Adam is said to have met his wife Eve after a long absence; and it is thence called Arafat or Gratitude. On the summit is a chapel, which the Mahometans believe to have been built by Adam. The interior was destroyed by the Wahabys in 1807.