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Mecca as in: pilgrimage to Mecca
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Non-Muslims are prohibited from entering Mecca.
Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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Each year millions of Muslim pilgrims visit Mecca -- especially during the Hajj.
Mecca = holiest city of Islam
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I went to a shopping mall with my mother, as she wanted to buy a special burqa to pray in Mecca.
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Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
- A prayer rug showing a slightly oblong Mecca was nailed to one of the walls. (source)
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We are obliged, at least once in our lives, to visit the holy city of Mecca.
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Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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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.
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Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles.
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Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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He told me too how, in Indonesia, he had been converted to Islam by his friend Bami the cook: giving up pork, fasting during Ramadan, praying to Mecca five times a day.
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Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
- No prayer rugs or symbol to show which way is east toward Mecca? (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)
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In a long row the dirt huts all kneel facing east, as if praying for the staved-off collapse—not toward Mecca exactly but east toward the village's one road and the river and behind all that, the pink sunrise surprise.
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Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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Islam adopted Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and Bagdad as holy cities.
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Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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"Like Mecca or Jerusalem," said Clary, thoughtfully.
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Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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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.
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Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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A murderer insisting that his cell door face Mecca?
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Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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Any earth will do, but these were specially fashioned of clay from Mecca.
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Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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It has blurry photos of the fiery destruction of Jerusalem, Mecca, and the Vatican.
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Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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"First, we must face Mecca, where our holy prophet, peace be upon him, rests," Monzoor said.
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Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
- While Hassan knelt on the concrete outside, facing Mecca, Colin went to the bathroom... (source)
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Perhaps, he thought, it was a religious object, a shrine, such as the Ka'aba in Mecca.
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Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
- Hunched up like a praying Arab in Mecca. (source)
- For how many years he had oriented his very being toward it, like a Muslim toward Mecca! (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)
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A sign in red marked the exit leading to the detour around Mecca, for non-Muslims passing through.
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Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
- He had named the truck Buraq, the heavenly steed that had carried the Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem during the Night Journey. (source)
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Would they be priests or prophets? Bards? Holy singers? Would the areas in which they dwell be shrines, holy places? A dolphin Vatican or Mecca? A Lourdes?
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Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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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.
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Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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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.
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Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
- A few of his co-religionists had come to the Maidan, and were praying with their faces towards Mecca. (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)
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...now a dim suggestion of what once it was, a dusty path for Syrian pilgrims to and from Mecca—
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Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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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.
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Mecca = holiest city
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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.
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Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
- With enough people passing through, maybe they could eventually become a retirement mecca like Oriental or Washington or New Bern.† (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)
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There is a Herati rug on the floor, beaded cushions to sit on, and a framed photo of Mecca on the wall.
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Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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The whole thing made me think of some elegant High Muslim mosque on New Mecca irreverently garlanded with tinsel.
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Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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I faced Mecca with the help of a line I scratched into the pale yellow ground and carefully kept up.
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Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
- Because it's the thought of Mecca that keeps me alive. (source)
- And you have the money you need to go to Mecca. (source)
- I thought that someday I'd be rich, and could go to Mecca. (source)
- But you know that I'm not going to go to Mecca. (source)
- Mecca is a lot farther away than the Pyramids. (source)
- At the same time, people were passing my shop all the time, heading for Mecca. (source)
- "Well, why don't you go to Mecca now?" asked the boy. (source)
- The name, he said, means "father who has been to Mecca." (source)
- Something like the 1979 massacre at Mecca, all those pilgrims dead. (source)
- Furthermore, Khanum Hakim carried the proud nickname of Bebe Hajji, "woman who has been to Mecca." (source)
- Together we faced Mecca and began our solemn intonations. (source)
- Mahtob received a dress tailor-made out of pure silk imported from Mecca. (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)
- 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)
- I spent my last year at St. Joseph's School feeling like the persecuted prophet Muhammad in Mecca, peace be upon him. (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- So everyone spoke with great authority, celebrating like the Prophet, PBUH, when he conquered Mecca, though his speech was one of forgiveness not cruel victory. (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)
- The boy remembered the crystal merchant who had always wanted to go to Mecca, and the Englishman in search of the alchemist. (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Every Muslim of means is expected to perform the Haj, a pilgrimage to Mecca, at least once in his life. (source)
- It seemed to Mortenson that Abdul, like most Muslims, had an internal compass permanently calibrated toward Mecca. (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)
- Mortenson knew that beyond the wall they faced, where an enormous purple and orange sign advertised the virtues of CalTex gasoline, lay Mecca. (source)
- Several men took a number of live sheep and, facing in the direction of Mecca while intoning sacred prayers, slashed their throats. (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- A poem about Mecca— (source)
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Sometimes I think of the far East, and keep rolling the names of Eastern cities under my tongue: Damascus and Bagdad, Medina and Mecca.
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Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
- He did it by making Our Lady of Perpetual Succour an affiliate of Mecca in Boston.† (source)
- But Our Lady of Perpetual Succour was no mere paper affiliate of Mecca.† (source)
- Each month, four medical students and two surgical residents came down from Mecca to do a rotation with us.† (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)
- 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)
- Next, Matthew showed us the "small" conference room where the Mecca surgical team held their morning report.† (source)
- "MECCA" CONSISTED OF a spanking-new hospital tower, weirdly shaped and shining as if it were made of platinum.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
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You foot-worn pilgrim welcoming the far-away sparkle of the minarets
of Mecca!† (source)
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I see religious dances old and 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)
- 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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mecca as in: a mecca for young artists
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With its stunning beaches and vibrant nightlife, Miami has become a mecca for tourists from around the globe.
mecca = a place that attracts many visitors
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- The annual Comic-Con event in San Diego is a mecca for comic book enthusiasts, attracting thousands of visitors each year.
- This was why, in the decades since the simulation's launch, the city had become a kind of high-tech Mecca. (source)
- The mall was a mecca for a newborn street rat. (source)
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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.
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mecca = place that attracts many visitors
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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.
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mecca = a place that attracts many visitors
- 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)
- Colorful azalea bushes bloomed like explosions all around this mecca of fast food. (source)
- Chthonia had become the gunters' Mecca. (source)
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Mecca's milk was cold; her food was fresh; and Rameck's money, as well as that opportunity, was gone.
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mecca = someone's name in this story
- His baby sister, Mecca, lay asleep in her crib. (source)
- Mecca wasn't even two years old. (source)
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