Mount Selaʾ in the "District of
the Seven Mosques" in city of Medina Municipality in Saudi Arabia. Sela means "sliced", because the mountain looks as if it is sliced several times.[1][2]
The Islamic prophet
Muhammad in the
Battle of the Trench prayed to God for victory on Mount Sela. Mount Sela was mentioned in several
Hadith of the stories of Muhammad such as The Prayer for Rain, The forgiveness of Kaʾb bin Mālik.[3][4][5]
Sela is mentioned by al-Ḥamdāni in his book Geography of Arabian Peninsula as part of Medina city in his time 150 years after Muhammad.[6][7] His name and the name of his companions
Umar and
Ali are inscribed on a stone on top of the mountain.[8][9][10][11]
^Sela' (Medina) citations at Book Mujam Buldan by Yaqut Hamwi, Volume I: pages 5,1,5.145.237.432.663.671 Volume ii:pages ,32.111. Volume 3: pages 117.661.767.839. Volume IV: pages 434.439,.468.556.626 al-Hamawi, Yaqut (1994). Kitab muʻjam al-buldān. Tehran: Frankfurt am Main : Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. p. 323.
OCLC61192389.
^al-Khattab, compiled by a group of scholars under the supervision of Shaikh
Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri ; translated by Nasiruddin (2004). History of Al-Madinah Al Munawarah (2nd ed.). Riyadh: Darussalam. p. 113.
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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'.