Editing Mount Sinai (section)

==Religious significance==

=== Judaism and Christianity ===
{{main|Mount Sinai (Bible)}}

Immediately north of the mountain is the 6th-century [[Saint Catherine's Monastery]]. The summit has a [[mosque]] that is still used by [[Islam in Egypt|Muslims]], and a [[Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria|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]].<ref name="sacredsites">{{cite web|url=http://www.sacredsites.com/africa/egypt/mount_sinai.html|publisher=Places of Peace and Power|title=Mount Sinai, Egypt|access-date=2006-08-29|archive-date=2011-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224070905/http://sacredsites.com/africa/egypt/mount_sinai.html|url-status=live}}</ref> At the summit also is "Moses' cave", where the [[Prophets in Judaism|Hebrew prophet]] [[Moses]] is believed to have waited to receive the [[Ten Commandments]] from [[God in Abrahamic religions|God]].<ref name="Vetus Testam."/><ref name="JNES 2014"/><ref name="JBL 2003"/>

=== Islam ===
The Jabal Musa is associated with the Islamic prophet [[Moses in Islam|Mūsā ibn ʿImrān]] (i.e., Moses).<ref name="JNES 2014"/> In particular, numerous references to Jabal Musa exist in the [[Quran]],<ref name="SharifHerklots1832">{{cite book|author1=Sharīf, J.|url=https://archive.org/details/b29338050|title=Qanoon-e-Islam: Or, The Customs of the Moosulmans of India; Comprising a Full and Exact Account of Their Various Rites and Ceremonies, from the Moment of Birth Till the Hour of Death|author2=Herklots, G. A.|publisher=Parbury, Allen, and Company|year=1832|quote=koh-e-toor.}}</ref><ref name="Abbas1984">{{cite book|author=Abbas, K. A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejkFAAAAMAAJ&q=koh-e-toor|title=The World is My Village: A Novel with an Index|publisher=Ajanta Publications|year=1984| isbn=978-0-8364-1131-7 |access-date=2021-06-01|archive-date=2023-12-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228105013/https://books.google.com/books?id=ejkFAAAAMAAJ&q=koh-e-toor|url-status=live}}</ref> where it is called ''Ṭūr Saināʾ'',<ref name="qref|23|20|b=y">{{qref|23|20|b=y}}</ref> ''Ṭūr Sīnīn'',<ref name="qref|95|2|b=y">{{qref|95|2|b=y}}</ref> and ''aṭ-Ṭūr''<ref name="qref|2|63-93|b=y">{{qref|2|63–93|b=y}}</ref><ref name="qref|28|3-86|b=y">{{qref|28|3–86|b=y}}</ref> and ''al-Jabal'' (both meaning "the Mount").<ref name="qref|7|103-156|b=y">{{qref|7|103–156|b=y}}</ref> As for the adjacent ''[[Wadi|Wād]] [[Ṭuwā]]'' ([[Valley]] of Tuwa), it is considered as being ''muqaddas''<ref name="qref|20|9-99|b=y">{{qref|20|9–99|b=y}}</ref><ref name="qref|79|15-25|b=y">{{qref|79|15–25|b=y}}</ref> ([[sacred]]),<ref name="IbnKathir Al-Ahmad">{{cite book|last=Ibn Kathir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zx9LDwAAQBAJ|title=Stories of the Prophets: [قصص الأنبياء [انكليزي|date=2013-01-01|publisher=Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah ({{langx|ar|دَار الْـكُـتُـب الْـعِـلْـمِـيَّـة}})|isbn=978-2745151360|editor=Dr Mohammad Hilmi Al-Ahmad|author-link=Ibn Kathir|access-date=2021-06-01|archive-date=2023-12-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228110119/https://books.google.com/books?id=zx9LDwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Elhadary2016">{{cite book|last=Elhadary|first=Osman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4-ReDQAAQBAJ|title=Moses in the Holy Scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: A Call for Peace|date=2016-02-08|publisher=BookBaby|isbn=978-1483563039|chapter=11, 15}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and a part of it is called ''Al-Buqʿah Al-Mubārakah'' ("The blessed Place").<ref name="qref|28|3-86|b=y" />
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File:St Catherines From Sinai.JPG|[[Saint Catherine's Monastery]], looking down from Mount Sinai
File:MasjidMountSinai.jpg|The mosque at the summit
File:Greek Orthodox Chapel at top of Mt Sinai.jpg|The chapel at the summit
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