Mount Sinai
| Mount Sinai | |
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| Arabic: جَبَل مُوْسَى, romanized: Jabal Mūsā[a] | |
 Mount Sinai as seen from the southwest | |
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| Elevation | 2,285 m (7,497 ft) |
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Mount Sinai,[b] also known as Jabal Musa (Arabic: جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, lit. 'Mountain of Moses'), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is one of several locations claimed to be the biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according to the sacred scriptures of the three major Abrahamic religions (Torah, Bible, and Quran), the Hebrew prophet Moses received the Ten Commandments from God.[1][2][3]
It is a 2,285-meter (7,497 ft) mountain near the city of Saint Catherine in the region known today as the Sinai Peninsula. It is surrounded on all sides by higher peaks in the mountain range of which it is a part. For example, it lies next to Mount Catherine which, at 2,629 m or 8,625 ft, is the highest peak in Egypt.[4]
Geology
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Mount Sinai's rocks were formed during the late stage of the evolution of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Mount Sinai displays a ring complex[5] that consists of alkaline granites intruded into diverse rock types, including volcanics. The granites range in composition from syenogranite to alkali feldspar granite. The volcanic rocks are alkaline to peralkaline, and they are represented by subaerial flows and eruptions and subvolcanic porphyry.
Religious significance
[edit | edit source]Judaism and Christianity
[edit | edit source]Immediately north of the mountain is the 6th-century Saint Catherine's Monastery. The summit has a mosque that is still used by Muslims, and a Greek Orthodox chapel, constructed in 1934 on the ruins of a 16th-century church, that is not open to the public. The chapel encloses the rock which is considered to be the source for the biblical Tablets of Stone.[6] At the summit also is "Moses' cave", where the Hebrew prophet Moses is believed to have waited to receive the Ten Commandments from God.[1][2][3]
Islam
[edit | edit source]The Jabal Musa is associated with the Islamic prophet Mūsā ibn ʿImrān (i.e., Moses).[2] In particular, numerous references to Jabal Musa exist in the Quran,[7][8] where it is called Ṭūr Saināʾ,[9] Ṭūr Sīnīn,[10] and aṭ-Ṭūr[11][12] and al-Jabal (both meaning "the Mount").[13] As for the adjacent Wād Ṭuwā (Valley of Tuwa), it is considered as being muqaddas[14][15] (sacred),[16][17] and a part of it is called Al-Buqʿah Al-Mubārakah ("The blessed Place").[12]
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Saint Catherine's Monastery, looking down from Mount Sinai
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The mosque at the summit
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The chapel at the summit
Ascent and summit
[edit | edit source]There are two principal routes to the summit. The longer and shallower route, Siket El Bashait, takes about 2.5 hours on foot, though camels can be used. The steeper, more direct route (Siket Sayidna Musa) is up the 3,750 "steps of penitence" in the ravine behind the monastery.[18]
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NNE view from the summit
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NW view from the summit
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The last few meters of the climb up the mountain
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Sunrise
See also
[edit | edit source]- Hashem El Tarif
- Sacred mountains
- Jebel Musa, Morocco, a similarly named mountain in Morocco
References
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- ^ Hanaa M. Salem and A. A. ElFouly, "Minerals Reconnaissance at Saint Catherine Area, Southern Central Sinai, Egypt and their Environmental Impacts on Human Health" Archived 2012-06-01 at the Wayback Machine. ICEHM2000, Cairo University, Egypt, September 2000, pp. 586–98
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- ^ Quran 23:20
- ^ Quran 95:2
- ^ Quran 2:63–93
- ^ a b Quran 28:3–86
- ^ Quran 7:103–156
- ^ Quran 20:9–99
- ^ Quran 79:15–25
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- ^ Egyptian Arabic: جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, romanized: Gabal Mūsā
Coptic: Ⲡⲧⲟⲟⲩ Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ, romanized: Ptoou Sina
Classical Syriac: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ Ṭūrāʾ d-Sīnayy
Ancient Greek: Ὄρος Σινά, romanized: Oros Sina
Latin: Mons Sinai
Hebrew: הַר סִינַי, romanized: Har Sīnay - ^ Hebrew: הַר סִינַי Har Sīnay; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ Ṭūrāʾ dəSīnăy; Coptic: Ⲡⲧⲟⲟⲩ Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ
External links
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- Error creating thumbnail: Mount Sinai travel guide from Wikivoyage
- Caucasian Albanian Alphabet Discovered and Deciphered, Azerbaijan International, Vol. 11:3 (Autumn 2003). Six articles.
- View OF Mount Sinai (as opposed to the view FROM Mount Sinai) Archived 2020-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
- Information about the town of St. Katherine and the Sinai mountains
- A Report on Mount Sinai
- Old maps of Mount Sinai. Eran Laor Cartographic Collection, The National Library of Israel.
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