27 December 2007
For this year's haj pilgrimage, 5,000 people from Uzbekistan's have travelled to Mecca, government-sponsored news agencies have reported, the first... Read more
Topic: hajj
31 January 2005
Rivalry between two religious bodies is blamed for thwarted Haj hopes of hundreds of Azerbaijani Muslims. Read more
05 July 2004
After a long-running row that has split Dagestan’s Muslims, the republic’s powerful religious body, the Spiritual Department of Muslims, has... Read more
14 March 2003
The annual pilgrimage to Mecca this February brought big money to some Dagestanis, and a lot of trouble to others.... Read more
26 February 2002
Nearly 2 million Muslims descended on Saudi Arabia in February for the hajj, the pilgrimage required at least once in... Read more