haj

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Sayid Mahdi, who will be in charge of around 2,800 Iranian pilgrims that will perform haj next week, said Saudi Arabia has been more cooperative in finding hotels for Iranians this year.

From Reuters • Jun. 23, 2023

Saudi Arabia is preparing to host some 2.6 million pilgrims next week for the 2023 haj season after removing all COVID-19 restrictions for the first time since 2019.

From Reuters • Jun. 23, 2023

May 1994: A stampede near Jamarat Bridge in Saudi Arabia during the haj kills 270 in the area where pilgrims hurl stones at piles of rocks symbolising the devil.

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