hadj
Britishnoun
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As part of that campaign, Iran sent about 100,000 of its citizens to Saudi Arabia for this year's hadj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
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The reason: many of their planes were en route to Saudi Arabia, loaded with Moslem pilgrims intent on making the hadj.
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Still, there is no imperative for the devout to visit the Dome as there is for them to make a hadj to Mecca.
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And he offered the Saudi airline a share of the lucrative annual hadj flights, the trips to Mecca by devout pilgrims from Iran.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the Moslems or the followers of Mohammed, it is necessary that once in their lives they make the pilgrimage, or hadj as it is called, to Mecca.
From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 16, February 25, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various
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