''Jabal An-Nabī Shuʿayb'' ( ar, جَبَل ٱلنَّبِي شُعَيْب, lit=Mountain of the Prophet Shuaib), also called ''Jabal Hadhur'' ( ar, جَبَل حَضُوْر, link=no, Jabal Ḥaḍūr),
is a mountain of the
Harazi subregion of the
Sarawat
The Sarawat Mountains ( ar, جِبَالُ ٱلسَّرَوَاتِ, Jibāl as-Sarawāt), also known as the Sarat, is a part of the Hijaz mountains in the western part of the Arabian Peninsula. In a broad sense, it runs parallel to the eastern c ...
, located in
Bani Matar District,
Sanaa Governorate
Sanaa ( ar, صَنْعَاء '), also spelled San'a or Sana, is a governorate of Yemen. Its capital is Sanaa, which is also the national capital. However, the city of Sanaa is not part of the governorate but instead forms the separate governorat ...
,
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
. It is the highest mountain of the country and the
Arabian Peninsula.
It is one of the most
prominent peaks in the world, and the
third most prominent peak in the Middle East.
Name
The mountain is named after a
prophet
In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the s ...
called ''Shuʿayb ibn Mahdam ibn Dhī-Mahdam al-Ḥaḍūrī'' (). According to Islamic scholars, he is different from
Shuaib
Shuaib, Shoaib, Shuayb or Shuʿayb ( ar, شعيب, ; meaning: "who shows the right path") is an ancient Midianite '' Nabi'' (Prophet) in Islam, and the most revered prophet in the Druze faith. Shuayb is traditionally identified with the Biblical ...
of
Midian
Midian (; he, מִדְיָן ''Mīḏyān'' ; ar, مَدْيَن, Madyan; grc-gre, Μαδιάμ, ''Madiam'') is a geographical place mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and Quran. William G. Dever states that biblical Midian was in the "northwest Ar ...
. According to Al-Hamdani, he was sent to the people of Mikhlaf Hadhur, but they killed him, and
God
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sent Bakht Nasr, who destroyed their town. Locals believe that his tomb is on the mountain. The mountain is also called ''Jabal Hadhur'' because it is located in the region of Mikhlaf Hadhur.
Description
Its elevation is often reported to be , but this is not supported by
SRTM data or more recent cartographic sources. The height of the mountain is , and is located near the Yemeni capital city of
Sanaa
Sanaa ( ar, صَنْعَاء, ' , Yemeni Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥 ''Ṣnʿw''), also spelled Sana'a or Sana, is the capital and largest city in Yemen and the centre of Sanaa Governorate. The city is not part of the Gover ...
. Yemen's second highest peak,
Jabal Tiyal
Jabal Tiyal ( ar, جَبَل ٱلطِّيَال, Jabal aṭ-Ṭiyāl), also known as "Jabal Adiyah", is a Sarawat mountain located near Sana'a, the capital city of Yemen. At , it is Yemen's second highest peak, after Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb, as wel ...
, is nearly equidistant from the capital as Jabal an-Nabi Shu'aib is. The mountain may seem like a rocky knoll from observation center, like on the Sana'a-Al Hudayda highway, but from its western face, it is a massive mountain rising from about . This side of the mountain halts clouds burdened with precipitation, causing that side to be relatively fertile. Atop the mountain is a military post with a radar, and what is reportedly the shrine of Shu'ayb.
File:Haraz 200612 Yemen-115 (353667843).jpg, The mountain (background) as viewed from the terraced side of mountain at Al Mahwit Governorate
Al Mahwit ( ar, ٱلْمَحْوِيْت ') is one of the governorates of Yemen.
Districts
Al Mahwit Governorate is divided into the following 9 districts. These districts are further divided into sub-districts, and then further subdivided int ...
File:Kawkaban -68 (353668857).jpg, As viewed from Kawkaban
Shibam Kawkaban ( ar, شبام كَوْكَبَان, Shibām Kawkabān)
is a double town in Shibam Kawkaban District, Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, located 38 km west-northwest of Sanaa, the national capital. It consists of two distinct adjoin ...
in Al-Mahwit Governorate
Climbing
It is relatively difficult to be allowed to its summit, but restrictions have eased as of late. Although the summit is not snow-capped like its counterparts in northern
Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...
and
Syria, there have been reports of snow on the peak and frost in the winter. Wind speeds are very high at the summit. In April 2019, Ahmad Zein Al-Yafei, an
Emirati security officer from
Dubai
Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...
, claimed
scaling the mountain in 69 hours, unfurling the banner of
Dubai Police at the peak. He mentioned that reaching the summit was hard, long and tiring, having to go through low levels of
oxygen
Oxygen is the chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group in the periodic table, a highly reactive nonmetal, and an oxidizing agent that readily forms oxides with most elements as ...
,
air pressure
Atmospheric pressure, also known as barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth. The standard atmosphere (symbol: atm) is a unit of pressure defined as , which is equivalent to 1013.25 millibars ...
and temperature.
Geology
The mountain is a prominent part of the tertiary volcanic series, which builds up large parts of the Yemeni highlands. Its rocks were sampled, analyzed and studied in detail by the German mineralogist
Dieter R. Fuchs. He elaborated in depth the geochemistry and petrogenetic properties and elaborated a thesis on the formation of this geological series.
See also
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South Arabia
**
Geography of Yemen
**
Geology of Yemen
References
External links
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, in Arabic)
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