haj

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Abu Rahal was one of more than 2 million haj pilgrims expected to attend the 2023 pilgrimage season this week in Mecca and Medina, defying global inflation and higher prices for haj services.

From Reuters • Jun. 26, 2023

About 19 million also took part annually in the umrah, another form of pilgrimage to Mecca which - unlike the haj - can be carried out at any time of the year, before the pandemic.

From Reuters • Jan. 9, 2023

Sept 2015: At least 717 Muslim pilgrims are killed and 863 injured in a crush at the haj pilgrimage 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

Hadj, Hajj, haj, n. a Mohammedan pilgrimage to Mecca or Medina.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various