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Article: Heard at Mecca: 'Are you single?'.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 5, 2007
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Byline: Rym Ghazal Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
Mecca, Saudi Arabia -- In the midst of overlapping murmurs of prayers in a sea of white-cloaked worshipers, a woman's voice interrupts the collective trance as she asks: "Are you single?"
For hundreds of years, Mecca has been the sacred meeting point of millions of Muslims from across the world. They come to perform the hajj, the annual major pilgrimage, or umrah, a minor pilgrimage that can be performed anytime.
Matchmaking is a profession that's at least as old as Mecca. But until now, say Saudi scholars, it hasn't been practiced at Islam's holiest site.
"These days, ...
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