RELIGST 3AR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Signify, Highway, Abraham In Islam
11 Nov 2017
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Mecca is a year round destination for muslims. Mecca sits in the western mountains of saudi arabia ub a sanctuary roughly 100 miles square. At the heart of the city is a great mosque called al-masjid al-haram, and at its center is the. Muslims don"t worship the kaaba, they worship what it represents. Inside the kaaba there is an unadorned room; according to one muslim tradition, the kaaba was built by adam based on a cosmic plan handed down from god and then rebuilt by abraham after the great flood. Fidelma o"leary traveled from texas to mecca to make her pilgrimage. For khaleel, shaped by the racial strife of south africa, hajj is a chance to see an ideal world of. The hajj is a quest for redemption. For almost 1,400 years, muslim pilgrims have been bringing their private please to this place but. The islamic belief is that the prophet abraham instituted the pilgrimage.
