Moushem Mountain
About the place
- Country : Saudi Arabia , Al-Qassim
- Address : Qassim Saudi Arabia
- Category : Plains and Mountains
Moushem Mountain
Historic overview:
Its ancient name is "Al kanabn", a great mountain.
It is located in the region of the Diyar Bani Asad region. It was mentioned in many texts that poems.
Al kanabn: It is a mountain hosting a water spring called Aseelah; this spring belongs to Bani Al asad.
Moushem Mountain is the old Al kanabn.
Current Location:
Moushem is not just a mountain, but also a series of Black Mountain; it has red hills and other hills that tend to be red but they look black; other hills consist of black and red colors.
It is located in the northwest of Al-Qassim.
It is considered one of the largest mountains in that region, as it reaches a height of 1044 m. It extends from north to south about a day's camel march, and it has good parks; the town of Fuwwara is located to the south of the mountain.
Moushem can be divided into three sections according to color: in the middle, there are hills that tend to be red; from the east, the mountain rage tends to be black; from the north, they tend to be black mountains as well, with some colored stones.
The colored stones are the reason why it was called a " Moushem", likening the mountain to the skin of a man who has tattoos. The people called it so because the colors of his rocks are not the same.
Resources:
"Al-ta'leqat w Al-Nawader" for Hijri (1/5)
Moagam Al-beldan by Yaqout al-Hamwi (4/401)
"From the Qassim Mountains" - Arab Magazine Issue Jan - 1978 Mohammed bin Nasser Al-Aboudi
Al-Jazirah Newspaper - 11203 issue Rabi` al-Thani 1424 A.H.
