PlacesDisputed place

Mount Tur

جبل الطور

The mountain at whose side Allah called Musa.

QuranSee it in the Atlas

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Whose story is set here

Musa

Today: Sinai, Egypt (the view of the fatwa)
How sure: Scholars differ on where it was; the map shows the view named below.
Map position: 28.5° N, 34.0° E

About this place

Allah called Musa from the right side of the mountain and drew him near in private talk (19:52); the Quran swears by Tur Sinin (95:2).

islamweb's fatwa places it in Sinai, in Egypt. In a lesson on islamweb, Shaykh Muhammad Isma'il al-Muqaddam notes that books of tafsir place it in Madyan and leans to that view, saying he found no decisive text. The map shows Sinai.