Mount Hureish is a mountain in the northern West Bank, part of the broader Jabal Nablus (Samarian Hills) range.

The tomb is built of quality stone and consists of three rooms and a courtyard attached to the structure's eastern side.

Large Roman or Byzantine-era dressed, stone blocks make up the base of the tomb's southern wall.

[2] The French geographer Victor Guérin, who visited the area in 1878, referred to the tomb of Sheikh Hureish, writing that on "a high hill with steep slopes we saw a Sheikh's tomb called Waly Kheish, to where local people comes as pilgrims".

At that time, Guerin noted, the tomb was topped by a white dome and could be "seen from afar".