haj

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Balloons and haj slogans in Farsi decorated the Al-Mozn hotel where Hossaini, and other pilgrims from the Iranian city of Shiraz, stayed in Mecca.

From Reuters • Jun. 23, 2023

In 2019, the last year before the pandemic struck, some 2.6 million people performed the haj.

From Reuters • Jan. 9, 2023

April 1998: One hundred and nineteen Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the haj in Saudi Arabia.

From Reuters • Oct. 29, 2022

About 20 years after that, he took his first haj — the pilgrimage to Mecca — aboard a British Airways de Havilland Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner.

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2022

One who having made the haj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca, is entitled to wear a green turban and assume the title of haji. 

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry