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Hajj

  • Climate change: impact on the Hajj

    Citing an MIT study that projects Hajj heat stress exceeding ‘extreme danger’ levels, the author asks how climate scientists and Islamic scholars will reconcile a divine command with a warming…

  • Review: The Hajj, by FE Peters

    Reviews F. E. Peters’s history of the Hajj from its pre-Islamic origins to 1926, finding the discussion of how pre-Islamic pilgrimage rituals were modified and combined with the Umrah the…

    Omar Ali10 September 20172 comments
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