Definition of hajj
: the pilgrimage to Mecca prescribed as a religious duty for Muslims
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The border crossing at Arar was reopened this month for trade and travelers, just in time for Iraqis to make the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, now under way.
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Before his hajj, the African and the Muslim worlds had heard little about the emperor who was uniting many parts of modern-day Mauritania and Mali (Melle), and the tale was unknown to most of Europe.
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Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims perform the tawwaf on any given day during the hajj.
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Those meetings came as Riydah allowed Qataris pilgrims over the border in August for hajj, a pilgrimage required of every able-bodied Muslim once in their lives.
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As the hajj and Love Parade disasters have shown, organizers should try to avoid bottlenecks and areas where flows in different directions are likely to cross each other.
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President Joko Widodo’s hard-line Islamist opponents have seized on the rising number of allegations of fraud by companies that organize trips to Mecca on the umrah, which is known as the minor pilgrimage in comparison with the hajj.
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More than 80,000 Iranian pilgrims are now in Saudi Arabia to perform the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest sites, after they were barred last year from making the trip.
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Pilgrims must wait up to 30 years for one of Indonesia’s 211,000 annual places in the hajj.
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Definition of hajj for English Language Learners
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: a journey to Mecca that is a religious duty for Muslims
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