''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 Bani Matar District ( ar, مُدِيْرِيَّة بَنِي مَطَر, Mudīriyyat Banī Maṭar) is a district of the Sanaa Governorate, Yemen. , the district had a population of 100,012 inhabitants. Environment In this district is located ...

, Sanaa Governorate,

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 north and Oman to the northeast and ...

. It is the highest mountain of the country and the

Arabian Peninsula The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plat ...

. 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

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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 ...

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

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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

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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 w ...

, 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

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and

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

, 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

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, claimed scaling the mountain in 69 hours, unfurling the banner of

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at the peak. He mentioned that reaching the summit was hard, long and tiring, having to go through low levels of

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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.

References

External links

Jabal an-Nabi Shu'ayb

Jabal an-Nabī Shu‘aib, Yemen

Forecast for Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb

Jabal an-Nabi Shu'ayb - The highest mountain

Village at the base of Jabal an-Nabi Shu'ayb

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