haj,
- a variation of hajj.
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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
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
April 1998: One hundred and nineteen Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the haj in Saudi Arabia.
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
