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
July 1990: Inside Saudi Arabia's al-Muaissem tunnel near the Muslim holy city of Mecca, 1,426 pilgrims are crushed to death during Eid al-Adha, Islam's most important feast, at the end of the annual haj pilgrimage.
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
