Mount Sinai, also known as Mount Horeb, Mount Musa, Gabal Musa, Jabal Musa is the name of a 2,285-metre (7,497 ft) high mountain near Saint Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. In Arabic the words jabal and ṭūr have similar meanings, and Mount Sinai is mentioned many times in the Quran; for example chapter 'The Fig' (Sūrat al-Tīn) as "Ṭūr Sīnīn". It is mentioned in the...