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PROBLEM GUŽVE NA MINI ZA VRIJEME HADŽDŽA
THE CROWD PROBLEM AT MINA DURING HAJJ

Author(s): Mustafa Hasani
Subject(s): Islam studies, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Fakultet islamskih nauka u Sarajevu
Keywords: Hajj; Mina; stone throwing; Jamrat al’aqaba;

Summary/Abstract: The crowd problem during Hajj is one of the questions that are being the subject matter of research. All participants in this holly act, the Government of Saudi Arabia Kingdom as the host and organizer, ulama whose task is to offer solutions of such new cases and direct Muslims, and the very pilgrims have interest to solve the crowding problem during Hajj, so that the hajjis could perform their duties in a more safer, regular and easier way and to satisfy Allah with their prayers and deeds. Mina is a narrow valley, eight kilometres far from Ka’bah, where during the four days of Eid ul-Adha, day and night, nearly all hajjis are coming. So, Mina is the place where the hajjis stay the longest. Only when we add that there are millions of them in constant movement, one realises how difficult task have the organizer and the ulama that have to take these facts into consideration in organising hajjis to perform the hajj rites.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 139-160
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Bosnian