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Hajj

حج
Definition

The annual pilgrimage to Makkah — the original motivation for Ibn Battuta's departure from Tangier at age 21. What began as a religious obligation became the starting point of a thirty-year journey spanning 120,000 kilometers across nearly every Muslim land.

As understood in the classical tradition of Ibn Battuta and the scholars of his school.

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