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Mount Sinai also, Mount Musa, Gabal Musa (Egyptian Arabic accent), Jabal Musa (standard Arabic meaning "Moses' Mountain") by the Bedouin, is the name of a mountain in Saint Katherine city, in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. In Arabic the words 'Jabal' and 'Toor' have similar meanings, and a Mount Sinai is mentioned in the Quran chapter 'The Fig' (Surah at-Tin) as "Toor-i-Sineen. Furthermore a Scottish individual by the name of Thomas Stratton compared ancient Hebrew languages and Gaelic languages to find that a translation of "toor" in either language produces "a mount." It is the Bedouin and Christian traditional location of the Biblical Mount Sinai
Geography
Mount Sinai is a 2285 m-high mountain in Saint Katherine city, in Sinai region. It is next to Mount St. Catherine (at 2,629 m, the tallest peak on the Sinai peninsula). It is surrounded on all sides by higher peaks of the mountain range.
Geology
Mount Sinai rocks were formed in the late stage of the Arabian-Nubian Shield's (ANS) evolution. Mount Sinai displays a ring complex 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 per alkaline and they are represented by subaerial flows and eruptions and sub volcanic porphyry. Generally, the nature of the exposed rocks in Mount Sinai indicates that they originated from different depths.
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