{{Short description|Peak of the Sulaiman Mountains in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan}} {{other uses|Takht-e-Soleiman (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Takht-e-Sulaiman | image = | image_caption = | elevation_m = 3,487 | elevation_ref = | prominence_m = | prominence_ref = | listing = List of mountains in Pakistan | location = Pakistan | range = Sulaiman Mountains | map = Pakistan | range_coordinates = | coordinates = {{coord|31|40|57.66|N|69|56|11.64|E|type:mountain_region:PK_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref = | first_ascent = | easiest_route = }}
'''Takht-e-Sulaiman'''{{efn|{{langx|Ur|{{nq|تَختِ سلیمان }}}}; {{langx|ps|تخت سليمان}}, Balochi: تخت ء سلیمان}} ({{literally|Throne of Solomon}}) is a peak of the Sulaiman Mountains, located near the town of Darazinda in the Dera Ismail Khan Subdivision of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.<ref name="dawn1">{{Cite web |date=5 September 2009 |title=Geography: Mountains of Pakistan |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/885748 |access-date=2 February 2018 |website=Dawn |language=en-PK}}</ref> It is close to Dera Ismail Khan Subdivision's borders with both South Waziristan and Zhob, Balochistan. At {{convert|3487|m|ft|}}, it is the highest peak in Dera Ismail Khan District.<ref name="dawn1" />
==In mythology == thumb|View of the Takht-e-Sulaiman Mountain seen from Derabund in the 19th century Ibn Battuta named Takht-e-Sulaiman as ''Kōh-e Sulaymān'', "Mount of Solomon".<ref>{{cite web |date=7 October 2002 |title=Sulaiman Mountains, Pakistan |url=http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=10780 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030404053837/http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=10780 |archive-date=4 April 2003 |access-date=10 Nov 2013 |publisher=NASA Earth Observatory}}</ref> A legend, recorded by him, has it that Prophet Solomon climbed this mountain and looked out over the land of Hindustan, which was then "covered with darkness". After staying on the peak, he turned back without descending into this new frontier, and so the peak got named after him.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Qaisrani |first=Saad |date=10 September 2017 |title=To the throne of Sulaiman |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/563954-throne-sulaiman |access-date=2 February 2018 |website=The News International |language=en-PK}}</ref>
According to the Pashtun mythology, Qais Abdur Rashid, said to be the legendary ancestor of the Pashtun people, is buried on top of Takht-e-Sulaiman, which gives the peak the local Pashto name of ''Da Kasī Ghar'' (د کسي غر, "Mountain of Qais").<ref name="khyber">{{Cite web |last=McMahon |first=A. H. |title=Ascent of the Takht e Suleiman |url=http://www.khyber.org/places/2011/Ascent_of_the_Takht_e_Suleiman.shtml |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170714213153/http://www.khyber.org/places/2011/Ascent_of_the_Takht_e_Suleiman.shtml |archive-date=14 July 2017 |access-date=2 February 2018 |website=Khyber.org}}</ref>
== Tourism == Takht-e-Sulaiman is surrounded by olive groves and pine-nut (chalghoza) forests, and hosts wild animals like markhors, wolves, rabbits, eagles and partridges. Royalty from the Gulf Arab states are known to hunt precious birds in the region.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Betini |first=Asad Khan |date=23 February 2018 |title=Sulaiman’s throne |url=https://thefridaytimes.com/23-Feb-2018/sulaiman-s-throne |access-date=28 November 2024 |website=The Friday Times |language=en}}</ref> == References == {{Notelist}} {{Reflist}}
Category:Sulaiman Mountains Category:Mountains of Balochistan (Pakistan) Category:Three-thousanders of the Hindu Kush
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