The pilgrimage celebrates the life and teachings of Cheikh Amadou Bamba, who founded the Mouride brotherhood in 1883 and begins on the 18th of Safar. ===Shia=== Al-Arba‘īn (ٱلْأَرْبَـعِـيْـن, "The Forty"), Chehelom (, , "the fortieth [day]") or Qirkhī, Imāmīn Qirkhī (İmamın qırxı (إمامین قیرخی), "the fortieth of Imam") is a Shia Muslim religious observance that occurs forty days after the Day of Ashura.
Pilgrimage to this area was off-limits to Jews from 1948 to 1967, when East Jerusalem was under Jordanian control. There are numerous lesser Jewish pilgrimage destinations, mainly tombs of tzadikim, throughout the Land of Israel and all over the world, including: Hebron; Bethlehem; Mount Meron; Netivot; Uman, Ukraine; Silistra, Bulgaria; Damanhur, Egypt; and many others. ==Sikhism== Sikhism does not consider pilgrimage as an act of spiritual merit.
Pilgrimage to this area was off-limits to Jews from 1948 to 1967, when East Jerusalem was under Jordanian control. There are numerous lesser Jewish pilgrimage destinations, mainly tombs of tzadikim, throughout the Land of Israel and all over the world, including: Hebron; Bethlehem; Mount Meron; Netivot; Uman, Ukraine; Silistra, Bulgaria; Damanhur, Egypt; and many others. ==Sikhism== Sikhism does not consider pilgrimage as an act of spiritual merit.
Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo Dolnoslaskie. Kerschbaum & Gattinger, Via Francigena – DVD – Documentation, of a modern pilgrimage to Rome, , Verlag EUROVIA, Vienna 2005 Margry, Peter Jan (ed.) (2008), Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World.
Since 2014, two or three million people have participated the Hajj annually.
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