Inside the hajj, with 1m believers
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The Guardian's religious affairs correspondent travels to Mecca to offer a unique insight into the rituals and mood at the world's largest pilgrimage
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NAJAF, IRAQ - We had run a bristling gantlet of countless snipers and checkpoints manned by US Army soldiers and Mahdi Army fighters and were now within the Imam Ali shrine, one of the holiest sites in Islam and the redoubt of the ...
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MENA, Saudi Arabia  - More than two million Muslim  pilgrims arrived in the tented city of Mena Tuesday, the first  day of a haj pilgrimage marked by grief over the Asian tsunami  disaster and security fears.
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NAJAF, Iraq Aug. 27, 2004 - Iraqi police discovered at least 10 bodies in a building housing a maverick religious court run by rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr&#39;s followers here Friday and said they were
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A group of Muslim worshippers were gathered for evening prayer inside the Islamic Center of Southern California when Moses Port and David Guarascio arrived.
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Officials said yesterday the number of Muslim worshipers allowed onto the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the coming month of Ramadan may have to be limited because of a danger the biblical-era complex might collapse.
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Millions of Muslims prayed together for peace and harmony on a riverbank near the Bangladeshi capital on Sunday, concluding an annual assembly that is considered one of the world&#39;s largest Islamic gatherings.
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Saudi Arabia says it is ready to host more than two million pilgrims at this year's haj after tightening security and safety to ensure the annual Muslim rite passes without incident.
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The largest annual gathering of American Muslims opened Friday amid a debate over how best to make their voices heard in the presidential election and build relations with other faiths.
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The UK's first stand-alone Islamic High Street bank,  aimed at the UK's 1.8 million Muslims opens in London on Wednesday.
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Thousands of Muslims celebrated the end of the month-long period of fasting and praying. In a cavernous hall decorated with gold balloons that read &quot;Eid Mubarak,&quot; or Blessed Eid, they prayed together, bought
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Mecca is by far the Muslim world's most open and diverse city, a product largely of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage.
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ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia  - Muslim pilgrims spent the day in prayer on the plain of Arafat near Mecca on Tuesday, marking the climax of this season's haj pilgrimage where Iranian pilgrims managed to protest against America.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - As the annual pilgrimage opens in the Muslim holy city of Mecca on Monday, few first-time pilgrims say they are entirely free of anxiety and confusion about the rituals they must perform.
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ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia  - Tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims reached the plain of Arafat east of Mecca on Monday, the vanguard of a throng expected to peak at more than 2 million people by Tuesday, the climax of the haj pilgrimage.
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A view of the Dome of the Rock mosque, located in the al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam&#39;s third holiest site and known by Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem&#39;s Old City Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004.
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More than two million Muslims stand on Mount Arafat for the high point of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.