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"I can't believe I've finished the hajj rituals," Iraqi pilgrim Adnan Hamad, 58, told AFP, as his daughters in white robes, or abayas, looked on.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

Fearful of a future shackled to the home, Charu leaves at 16 to find her way in Bombay, the first of this pilgrim soul’s reinventions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

An avid researcher armed with a camera, Enriquez is both reporter and pilgrim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

All of them were to get a cut of the pilgrim income from those who came to pray to the saint.

From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024

Following closely behind them perhaps there would have strode a professional pilgrim, supporting himself on a stout knobbed staff shod like an alpenstock and weighed down with blessed medals, relics, shells, vernicles and so forth.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

His mausoleum, which dates to the 9th Century and has a towering golden dome and minarets, is visited by millions of pilgrims each year.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

The heat was unrelenting, but there were some shoppers, pilgrims and tourists around - and the vendors said they'd set up shops in the hope of finding some customers.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

The white-robed pilgrims have been contending with searing desert heat as they perform the days-long, mostly outdoor rituals, with temperatures reaching 44C in Mecca and Mina on Wednesday.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

Despite the war, Saudi officials said over the weekend that more pilgrims had travelled from abroad this year than in 2025.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

That is where it will one day stand, and pilgrims will be able to come here and worship the pharaoh long after his death.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman