Islam in the World
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: February 24, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780195305036
First sentence: Every year during the season of pilgrimage or 'Hajj', about two million people converge on the holy places of Makka, Mina, Muzdalifa and Arafat to participate in rites whose origins have been lost in the mists of antiquity.