Jabal al-Lawz

Ultra-prominent mountain in Saudi Arabia

Jabal al-Lawz

Jabal al-Lawz

Location in Saudi Arabia

Highest point
Elevation| 2,556 m (8,386 ft)[1]
Prominence| 1,598 m (5,243 ft)[1]
Listing| Ultra, Ribu
Coordinates| 28°39′15″N 35°18′14″E﻿ / ﻿28.65404°N 35.30400°E﻿ / 28.65404; 35.30400[1]
Naming
Native name| جَبَل ٱللَّوْز (Arabic)
English translation| mountain of almonds
Geography
Location| Saudi Arabia

Jabal al-Lawz (Arabic: جَبَل ٱللَّوْز) is a mountain located in northwest Saudi Arabia, near the Jordanian border, above the Gulf of Aqaba at 2,580 metres (8,460 feet) above sea level. The name means 'mountain of almonds'.[2] The peak of Jabal al-Lawz, consists of a light-colored, calc-alkaline granite that is intruded by rhyolite and andesite dikes which generally trend eastward.[3]

Between 1300 and 2200 meters elevation, Jabal al-Lawz has relict Mediterranean woodlands of Juniperus phoenicea, with an understory of Achillea santolinoides, Artemisia sieberi, and Astracantha echinus subsp. arabica.[4]

In discussions about the location of biblical Mount Sinai, Jabal Maqlā ('Burnt Mountain') is often believed to be Jabal al-Lawz by various authors such as Bob Cornuke, Ron Wyatt, and Lennart Möller as shown by local and regional maps[3] and noted by other investigators.[5] In contrast to the real Jabal al-Lawz, the summit of Jabal Maqlā consists mainly of dark-colored hornfels derived from metamorphosed volcanic rocks that originally were silicic and mafic lava flows, tuff breccias, and fragmental greenstones. The middle and lower slopes of Jabal Maqlā consist of light-colored granite, which has intruded into the overlying hornfels. This is the same granite that comprises Jabal al-Lawz.[3] Jabal Maqla is about 7 kilometers to the south, and a few hundred meters lower.

Claims made by some writers, including Bob Cornuke, Ron Wyatt, and Lennart Möller, that Jabal Maqlā, possibly identified as Jabal al-Lawz, is the real biblical Mount Sinai have been rejected by such scholars as James Karl Hoffmeier (Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology), who details what he calls Cornuke's "monumental blunders".[2][6]

Remains both of pillars and cairns at the site have been described as "similar to rock cairns of uncertain use and often uncertain date found at other sites throughout northern and western Arabia."[7]

## See also

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* List of mountains in Saudi Arabia
* List of Ultras of West Asia
* Nabataeans, Nabataean architecture

## References

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1. ^ a b c Bjørstad, Petter (2024-01-23). "Jabal al Lawz". Mountains that I climbed and remember.
2. ^ a b Hoffmeier, J.K. (2005). Ancient Israel in Sinai: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Wilderness Tradition. Oxford scholarship online. Oxford University Press. p. 132\. ISBN 978-0-19-803540-4.
3. ^ a b c Brown, Glen F.; Johnson, Robert F.; Trent, Virgil A. (1967), Geologic map of the Jabal al Lawz quadrangle, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Directorate General of Mineral Resources, OCLC 367526278
4. ^ Ghazanfar, S.A.; Fisher, M. (2013). Vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula. Geobotany. Springer Netherlands. ISBN 978-94-017-3637-4.
5. ^ Caldwell, J.; Caldwell, P. (2011). The Real Mount Sinai. Diamondhead, Mississippi: Split Rock Research Foundation.
6. ^ Jameson, J.H.; Ehrenhard, J.E.; Finn, C.A. (2003). Ancient Muses: Archaeology and the Arts. University of Alabama Press. p. 180\. ISBN 978-0-8173-1274-9.
7. ^ Allen Kerkeslager (1998). "Jewish Pilgrimage and Jewish Identity". In Frankfurther, David (ed.). Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt. Brill. p. 212\. ISBN 978-9004111271. Retrieved 2015-12-29.

## External links

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* "Jabal al Lawz". Peakbagger.com.

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Hills and mountains on the Arabian Peninsula

|  Oman|

| Hajar range[a]|

| Central Hajar|

* Jebel Akhdar[b]
* Jebel Shams (H)[c]

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Eastern Hajar|

* Jabal Aswad
* Jabal Bani Jabar

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Western Hajar[d]|

* Jebel Akhdar
* Jebel Ghawil
* Jebel Shams (H, HP)

| Ru'us al-Jibal[e]|

* Jabal Al Harim
* Jebel Qihwi

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Dhofar range|

* Jebel Qamar
* Jebel Qarah
* Jabal Samhan

Saudi Arabia|

List of mountains in Saudi Arabia

* List of volcanoes in Saudi Arabia
* Jabal Al-Qarah

| Sarat range[f]|

* Jabal Al-Oraif[g]

| 'Asir range[h]|

* Harrat al Birk (LF)
* Jabal Ad-Dhoor
* Jabal Al-Hadab
* Jabal Al-Majaz
* Jabal Al-Qo'mah
* Jabal As-Sahla'
* Jebal As-Seqaa
* Jabal Atherb
* Jabal Khalaqah
* Jabal Lawa's
* Jabal Mana'
* Jabal Maomah
* Jabal Mareer
* Jabal Masher
* Jabal Moushref
* Jabal Nahran
* Jabal Natfa'
* Jabal 'Okran
* Jabal Sawdah
* Jabal Yar (VF)
* Jabal Warrab
* Sh'af A'l Nassir
* Sh'af Bayhan

| Al-Bahah|

* Jabal Shada [ar]

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Jizan|

* Fifa Mountains
* Jebel Al-Qeher [ar]

Najran|

* Jabal Abu Hamdan
* Jabal Raum

Hijaz range[i]|

* Harrat Khaybar (VF)
* Harrat Kishb (LF)
* Al Wahbah crater (VC)
* Harrat Lunayyir
* Harrat Rahat (LF)
* Jabal Abu Qubays
* Jabal al-Nour
* Jabal 'Arafat
* Jabal Daka
* Jabal Hada
* Jabal Sela
* Jabal Thawr
* Jabal Uhud
* Jabal Werqan
* Safa and Marwa
* Jabal e-Malaika

| Midian range|

* Harrat al-Sham (VF)
* Jabal Al-Amud? (VF)
* Jabal Al-Lawz
* Jabal Al-Qalom
* Jabal an Nukhaylah
* Jabal Hubaysh (Tabuk Region)
* Jabal Maqla
* Jabal `Umayyid
* Jabal Umm Hayfā'
* Mountains of Adh-Dhahr

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Shammar range|

* Salma range
* Jabal Shammar

| Aja range|

* Jabal Aja
* Shammar Mountains

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Tuwayr range|

* Jabal Tuwaiq?

United Arab Emirates|

* List of mountains in the United Arab Emirates

| Western Hajar[j]|

| Ru'us al-Jibal[k]|

* Jebel Jais (H)[l]
* Jabal Ar-Rahrah
* Jabal Rahabah
* Jabal Qada'ah
* Jebel Yibir (HP)[m]

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Shumayliyyah range[n]|

* Jebel Al-Heben

Outliers, outcrops or anticlines|

* Jebel Buhais (AC, OC)
* Jebel Faya (AC, OC)
* Jebel Hafeet[o] (OL)

Yemen|

* List of volcanoes in Yemen

| Hadhramaut range|

* Jabal Ar-Rays?
* Jabal Husn Ghuraf
* Jebel Shaqb?

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Sarat range[p]|

* Harra of Arhab (VF)
* Harras of Dhamar (VF)
* Harra es-Sawad (VF)
* Jabal Hubaysh (Ibb Governorate)
* Jabal Kanin
* Jabal Nuqm
* Jabal Sabir
* Jabal Tiyal

| Haraz range|

* Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb (H, HP)[q]

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Note: Mountains are sorted in alphabetical order, unless where it concerns ranges. The highest confirmed mountains in each country are indicated with 'HP', and those with the highest peak are indicated with 'HP', bearing in mind that in the UAE, the highest mountain and the mountain with the highest peak are different. Outcrops are indicated with 'OC', and outliers with 'OL', and anticlines with 'AC'. Volcanoes are indicated with 'V', volcanic craters with 'VC', lava fields with 'LF', and volcanic fields with 'VF'.

Other notes:

1. ^ Shared with the UAE
2. ^ Also regarded as being of the Western Hajar
3. ^ Also regarded as being of the Western Hajar
4. ^ Shared with the UAE
5. ^ Shared with the UAE
6. ^ Sensu lato, shared with Yemen
7. ^ Shared with Yemen
8. ^ Sensu lato
9. ^ Sensu lato
10. ^ Shared with Oman
11. ^ Shared with Oman
12. ^ Highest mountain in the UAE, but the peak is in Oman
13. ^ Due to the peak of Jebel Jais being in Oman, this mountain has the highest confirmed peak in the UAE
14. ^ Shared with Oman
15. ^ Shared with Oman
16. ^ Shared with Saudi Arabia
17. ^ Highest confirmed peak in the Arabian Peninsula

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