The Rig Jenn ( fa, ریگ جن ‘
Dune of the
Jinn
Jinn ( ar, , ') – also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies (with the broader meaning of spirit or demon, depending on sources)
– are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian religious systems and later in Islamic mytho ...
’) is a vast area of
sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class o ...
dunes in the middle of
Dasht-e Kavir
Dasht-e Kavir ( fa, دشت كوير, lit=Low Plains in classical Persian, from ''khwar'' (low), and ''dasht'' (plain, flatland)), also known as Kavir-e Namak () and the Great Salt Desert, is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian Plat ...
, Iran's central
desert in the border region of the
Semnan and
Isfahan provinces. It was not travelled by the old
caravan travellers, who believed it is a place where evil spirits live. Even today some in the neighbouring towns and villages believe this.
Sven Hedin, the famous desert explorer avoided this area in his 1900s explorations to Iranian deserts.
The Austrian geographer
Alfons Gabriel crossed the southern 'tail' of it on his way from
Ashin to
Arusan in the 1930s.
Dunes of Iran
Landforms of Semnan Province
Jinn-related places
Landforms of Isfahan Province
Ergs
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