Editing Gog and Magog (section)

=== Location of the wall ===
The wall dividing them from civilized peoples was normally placed towards today's [[Armenia]] and [[Azerbaijan]], but in the year 842 the [[Caliph]] [[Al-Wathiq]] had a dream in which he saw that it had been breached, and sent an official named Sallam to investigate (this may be related to [[Epic of Ergenekon|Ergenekon]]).{{sfn|Van Donzel|Schmidt|2010|pp=xvii–xviii, 82}} Sallam returned a little over two years later and reported that he had seen the wall and also the tower where Dhul Qarnayn had left his building equipment, and all was still intact.{{sfn|Van Donzel|Schmidt|2010|pp=xvii–xviii, 244}} It is not entirely clear what Sallam saw, but he may have reached [[Derbent]] in the Caucasus or the [[Jade Gate]] and the westernmost customs point on the border of China.{{sfn|Van Donzel|Schmidt|2010|pp=xvii–xviii}} Somewhat later the 14th-century traveller [[Ibn Battuta]] reported that the wall was sixty days' travel from the city of [[Quanzhou|Zeitun]], which is on the coast of China; the translator notes that Ibn Battuta has confused the [[Great Wall of China]] with that built by [[Dhul-Qarnayn]].{{r|gibb-beckingham}}