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  • The whole thing made me think of some elegant High Muslim mosque on New Mecca irreverently garlanded with tinsel.†   (source)
  • In many ways Colorado Springs today is what Los Angeles was fifty years ago — a mecca for the disenchanted middle class, a harbinger of cultural trends, a glimpse of the future.†   (source)
  • No prayer rugs or symbol to show which way is east toward Mecca?†   (source)
  • "Like Mecca or Jerusalem," said Clary, thoughtfully.†   (source)
  • Islam adopted Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and Bagdad as holy cities.†   (source)
  • The name, he said, means "father who has been to Mecca."†   (source)
  • While Hassan knelt on the concrete outside, facing Mecca, Colin went to the bathroom (there graffiti in the stall read: CALL DANA FOR BLOW.†   (source)
  • Even during his five daily prayer sessions, Mouzafer, a fastidious man of faith, would steal a glance away from Mecca to make sure Mortenson was still nearby.†   (source)
  • "Send them to Mecca" was an expression we used when we dispatched patients to places that offered what Our Lady of Perpetual Succour could not.†   (source)
  • With enough people passing through, maybe they could eventually become a retirement mecca like Oriental or Washington or New Bern.†   (source)
  • A murderer insisting that his cell door face Mecca?†   (source)
  • Not long ago Westwood Village had been an island of quaint charm in the more turbulent sea of the city around it, a mecca for shoppers and theatergoers.†   (source)
  • It has blurry photos of the fiery destruction of Jerusalem, Mecca, and the Vatican.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, he thought, it was a religious object, a shrine, such as the Ka'aba in Mecca.†   (source)
  • Of course, the sights I'm most interested in seeing—besides Andrew, of course—are the Oxfams where I can find some undiscovered treasure, and maybe this place I've heard about called Topshop, which is like the British equivalent of T.J. Maxx, or maybe H&M, which we don't actually have in Michigan, but that I've heard about, of course, as a fashion lover's mecca.†   (source)
  • Something like the 1979 massacre at Mecca, all those pilgrims dead.†   (source)
  • He had named the truck Buraq, the heavenly steed that had carried the Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem during the Night Journey.†   (source)
  • The grand mullah of Mecca had given a speech denouncing the nanovaccines and stating that they were made from the entrails of pigs.†   (source)
  • For how many years he had oriented his very being toward it, like a Muslim toward Mecca!†   (source)
  • Hunched up like a praying Arab in Mecca.†   (source)
  • Colorful azalea bushes bloomed like explosions all around this mecca of fast food.†   (source)
  • A dolphin Vatican or Mecca?†   (source)
  • I went to a shopping mall with my mother, as she wanted to buy a special burqa to pray in Mecca.†   (source)
  • But you know that I'm not going to go to Mecca.†   (source)
  • I faced Mecca with the help of a line I scratched into the pale yellow ground and carefully kept up.†   (source)
  • And you have the money you need to go to Mecca.†   (source)
  • Because it's the thought of Mecca that keeps me alive.†   (source)
  • Well, why don't you go to Mecca now?" asked the boy.†   (source)
  • I thought that someday I'd be rich, and could go to Mecca.†   (source)
  • At the same time, people were passing my shop all the time, heading for Mecca.†   (source)
  • Mecca is a lot farther away than the Pyramids.†   (source)
  • A sign in red marked the exit leading to the detour around Mecca, for non-Muslims passing through.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, Khanum Hakim carried the proud nickname of Bebe Hajji, "woman who has been to Mecca."†   (source)
  • He did it by making Our Lady of Perpetual Succour an affiliate of Mecca in Boston.†   (source)
  • "First, we must face Mecca, where our holy prophet, peace be upon him, rests," Monzoor said.†   (source)
  • Together we faced Mecca and began our solemn intonations.†   (source)
  • But Our Lady of Perpetual Succour was no mere paper affiliate of Mecca.†   (source)
  • Mahtob received a dress tailor-made out of pure silk imported from Mecca.†   (source)
  • Any earth will do, but these were specially fashioned of clay from Mecca.†   (source)
  • There is a Herati rug on the floor, beaded cushions to sit on, and a framed photo of Mecca on the wall They sit by the open window, on either side of an oblong patch of sunlight-Laila hears women's voices whispering from another room.†   (source)
  • Mecca's milk was cold; her food was fresh; and Rameck's money, as well as that opportunity, was gone.†   (source)
  • This was why, in the decades since the simulation's launch, the city had become a kind of high-tech Mecca.†   (source)
  • Around the same time, a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca set new sales records for the chain, earning $200,000 in a single week during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.†   (source)
  • The Zen Gnostic Church was expanding exponentially and I became a true believer, appearing on HTV talk shows and searching for my Places of Power with all of the devoutness of a pre-Hegira Muslim pilgrimaging to Mecca.†   (source)
  • The prayer rug, the one with the oblong, woven Mecca, came loose from the wall at one point and landed on my head; the dust from it made me sneeze.†   (source)
  • Mecca wasn't even two years old.†   (source)
  • But when we went to the other holy places in the desert of Mecca where the Prophet, PBUH, lived and preached, I was shocked that they were littered with empty bottles and biscuit wrappers.†   (source)
  • If Lakshmi, goddess of wealth, one day favours me bountifully, Oxford is fifth on the list of cities I would like to visit before I pass on, after Mecca, Varanasi, Jerusalem and Paris.†   (source)
  • My father says, "If I had known this would happen, I would have looked back for a last time just as the Prophet, PBUH, did when he left Mecca to migrate to Medina.†   (source)
  • C H A PT E R 7 4 I practised religious rituals that I adapted to the circumstances—solitary Masses without priests or consecrated Communion hosts, darshans without murtis, and pujas with turtle meat for prasad, acts of devotion to Allah not knowing where Mecca was and getting my Arabic wrong.†   (source)
  • Does Mecca beckon?†   (source)
  • We believe that when we have our first sight of the Kaaba, the black-shrouded cube in Mecca that is our most sacred place, any wish in your heart is granted by God.†   (source)
  • It was as if under Zia jihad had become the sixth pillar of our religion on top of the five we grow up to learn—the belief in one God; namaz, or prayers five times a day; giving zakat, or alms; roza, fasting from dawn till sunset during the month of Ramadan; and Haj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, which every able-bodied Muslim should do once in their lifetime.†   (source)
  • One year, when the crop was the best ever, we all went to Mecca, and I satisfied the only unmet obligation in my life.†   (source)
  • The boy remembered the crystal merchant who had always wanted to go to Mecca, and the Englishman in search of the alchemist.†   (source)
  • Who knows? maybe it's better to be like the crystal merchant: never go to Mecca, and just go through life wanting to do so, he thought, again trying to convince himself.†   (source)
  • I just want to dream about Mecca.†   (source)
  • Since that morning in the marketplace, he had never again made use of Urim and Thummim, because Egypt was now just as distant a dream for him as was Mecca for the merchant.†   (source)
  • Haji Ali, slowed by age, knelt laboriously to touch the simple stone placed above the spot where Sakina had been buried facing Mecca.†   (source)
  • Each month, four medical students and two surgical residents came down from Mecca to do a rotation with us.†   (source)
  • Mortenson knew that beyond the wall they faced, where an enormous purple and orange sign advertised the virtues of CalTex gasoline, lay Mecca.†   (source)
  • The most important result of our affiliation with Mecca was that it allowed Deepak, the Wandering Jew of surgery (as B.C. referred to him), to finish.†   (source)
  • Every Muslim of means is expected to perform the Haj, a pilgrimage to Mecca, at least once in his life.†   (source)
  • Several men took a number of live sheep and, facing in the direction of Mecca while intoning sacred prayers, slashed their throats.†   (source)
  • It seemed to Mortenson that Abdul, like most Muslims, had an internal compass permanently calibrated toward Mecca.†   (source)
  • Courtesy of the Mecca surgical residents who came down to the Bronx for rotations, we had more manpower and Deepak got more sleep.†   (source)
  • "MECCA" CONSISTED OF a spanking-new hospital tower, weirdly shaped and shining as if it were made of platinum.†   (source)
  • As the road worsened, the laminated 3D card depicting the great black-shrouded cube, the Kaaba of Mecca, that hung from the Toyota's rearview mirror, repeatedly smacked the windshield with the fervency of prayer.†   (source)
  • Instead, he stayed on at Our Lady with the title of Director of Surgical Training; he was also appointed Clinical Assistant Professor at Mecca.†   (source)
  • Gently, he turned the animal's head toward Mecca as Sher Takhi chanted the story of Allah asking Abraham to sacrifice his son, before allowing him to substitute a ram after he passed his test of loyalty.†   (source)
  • Next, Matthew showed us the "small" conference room where the Mecca surgical team held their morning report.†   (source)
  • At Mecca this was a weekly event.†   (source)
  • I'd encountered a medical student from Mecca, a saint compared with my first love; she was kind, generous, beautiful, and seemed to transcend herself, as if her existence was secondary to her interest in the world and the things in it, including me.†   (source)
  • This wasn't Mecca.†   (source)
  • Now I was going to Mecca.†   (source)
  • He knew only that he would have to decide by the end of summer, because in the fall he was to depart on a long journey, a world tour of the holy shrines of all faiths, from Lourdes to Jerusalem to Mecca to Benares.†   (source)
  • And in the same spirit, the domains of the national and world religions are centered around the hub of some mother city: Western Christendom around Rome, Islam around Mecca.†   (source)
  • Before him, the river and to the right, the long, grey bridges spanning it— —Like that sword with the big middle on Mecca cigarettes.†   (source)
  • A few of his co-religionists had come to the Maidan, and were praying with their faces towards Mecca.†   (source)
  • A poem about Mecca—the Caaba of Union—the thornbushes where pilgrims die before they have seen the Friend—they flitted next; he thought of his wife; and then the whole semi-mystic, semi-sensuous overturn, so characteristic of his spiritual life, came to end like a landslip and rested in its due place, and he found himself riding in the jungle with his dear Cyril.†   (source)
  • Here was Kapilavastu, here the Middle Kingdom, and here Mahabodhi, the Mecca of Buddhism; and here was Kusinagara, sad place of the Holy One's death.†   (source)
  • The Arab has impressed his language upon everything south and east of Judea, so, in his tongue, the old Jebel is the parent of numberless wadies which, intersecting the Roman road—now a dim suggestion of what once it was, a dusty path for Syrian pilgrims to and from Mecca—run their furrows, deepening as they go, to pass the torrents of the rainy season into the Jordan, or their last receptacle, the Dead Sea.†   (source)
  • The Turks use it in cooking, and also carry it to Mecca, for the same purpose that frankincense is carried to St. Peter's in Rome.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I think of the far East, and keep rolling the names of Eastern cities under my tongue: Damascus and Bagdad, Medina and Mecca.†   (source)
  • In her infantine excursions to Europe she had seen only the Continent, and seen it from the nursery window; Paris, not London, was her father's Mecca, and into many of his interests there his children had naturally not entered.†   (source)
  • You foot-worn pilgrim welcoming the far-away sparkle of the minarets of Mecca!†   (source)
  • …new, I hear the sound of the Hebrew lyre, I see the crusaders marching bearing the cross on high, to the martial clang of cymbals, I hear dervishes monotonously chanting, interspers'd with frantic shouts, as they spin around turning always towards Mecca, I see the rapt religious dances of the Persians and the Arabs, Again, at Eleusis, home of Ceres, I see the modern Greeks dancing, I hear them clapping their hands as they bend their bodies, I hear the metrical shuffling of their feet.†   (source)
  • …or dismount from your horse came of something else besides enchantments; and what I make out clearly from all this is, that these adventures we go seeking will in the end lead us into such misadventures that we shall not know which is our right foot; and that the best and wisest thing, according to my small wits, would be for us to return home, now that it is harvest-time, and attend to our business, and give over wandering from Zeca to Mecca and from pail to bucket, as the saying is.†   (source)
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