Safi ibn Vali’s Mughal Hajj maps The Salamat Ras departed Surat in India on the 20th September 1676, carrying hundreds of pilgrims...
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Lady Evelyn Cobbold (d. 1963) was the first British Muslim woman to make the pilgrimage to Mecca known as the Hajj,...
The Day of Arafat marks the climax of the Hajj. For hundreds of years, pilgrims have congregated on the plain,...
“The area between my house and my minbar is one of the gardens of Paradise…” Hadith For centuries upon centuries,...
With Hajj just around the corner, I compiled a list of things useful for women to pack, based on my...
In the days leading up to my departure from my hometown in England I was nervous, especially when everyone I said...
On March 5th, 2020 tawwaf (circumambulation) in the immediate vicinity of the Ka'ba was temporarily halted by the authorities (see the eery images here). A decision was taken to sterilise the area, due to fears over Coronavirus. This is not the first time that worshippers have been prevented from circumambulating the House of God; we take a look at some of the recorded historical instances in which tawwaf has been interrupted, for a host of different reasons.
In 1861, Egyptian army engineer and surveyor, arrived in the Hijaz by train. He had with him a large wet...
