mecca
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For decades, Saudi Arabia played an outsize role thanks to its vast oil production and its special status in Islam as home to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Some reported that he made a pilgrimage to Islam's holiest site in Mecca and adopted the name Abdul Rahman - Arabic for "servant of the merciful Lord" - although evidence is unclear, Gilham added.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026
At the latter, now called the Kariye Mosque, Muslim worshipers kneeling on the carpeted floor and praying toward Mecca are flanked by 14th-century mosaics of the Virgin Mary and Jesus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025
They called it Mecca, and every week, they came to the same stretch of levee next to an abandoned warehouse where Mardi Gras floats were once built.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025
Before their party approached, ready to leave for Mecca, we were able to talk enough to exchange that I was American and they were Ethiopians.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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