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Subscriber Essay: the Hajj and Islamic Pilgrimage

Derek Davison
Aug 10, 2019
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As we’re out of essay topics and I’ve been very remiss in not posting a new thread for requests, and as I’m too wiped out to write a whole essay today anyway, I’m cribbing from a couple of old essays I’ve written on the Hajj, which began on Friday, and other Islamic pilgrimages. You may notice an abundance of Arabic terms—that’s because it’s really unav…

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