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6 Oct 2014, 9:55 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] issued an order last week asking authorities in Saudi Arabia to arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir [BBC profile; JURIST news archives] while he is on pilgrimage in Mecca currently. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 9:30 pm
Rabb, Harvard Law School, and director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program, says of the book:Marion Holmes Katz brings to light and adds context to the fascinating history of women’s access to mosques through a dexterous presentation of a wide range of legal sources, travel accounts, contemporaneous Christian and Jewish accounts, literature, and a unique sixteenth-century manuscript recounting when women contested the ruling authorities’ attempt to ban them from Islam’s most… [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 8:50 am
We are a "shopping mecca"! [read post]
7 Aug 2014, 1:58 pm
Which direction is Mecca from the Williamsburg Bridge?). [read post]
5 Aug 2014, 7:10 pm
(Nobody else involved in the mitigation effort is Muslim, a pre-requisite for travel to Mecca; such people also do not speak Arabic.) [read post]
1 Aug 2014, 12:12 pm
Greater Boston CVB, I’m talking to youWe live in the Hollywood of Science, which is also a sports mecca, and through film and television (Banacek to Johnny Tremain; Allie McBeal to Black Mass) it has a legitimate place in the world’s imagination. [read post]
14 Jul 2014, 11:09 pm
He loses his fiance, but he manages a lifelong dream and takes his mother on a pilgrimage to Mecca. [read post]
29 Jun 2014, 6:07 am
For half a century the mall was the mecca. [read post]
27 Jun 2014, 7:26 am
Miami Beach is becoming a mecca for the reinvention of boutique hotels of all sizes, each attempting to bring a different, and in most cases, luxurious experience to the ever-increasing number of visitors to the area. [read post]
21 Jun 2014, 5:48 am
“None of their business” if government decides we pray to Mecca? [read post]
21 Jun 2014, 5:48 am
“None of their business” if government decides we pray to Mecca? [read post]
2 Jun 2014, 7:20 am
The last several years have been a lead-up to Miami’s emergence as a technology mecca. [read post]
22 May 2014, 3:19 pm
Mecca C & S, Inc., No. 2013-CV-4003 (Lacka. [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 12:41 pm
Yes, that is bulletproof glass in a hoagie shop.Maybe all those assurances that if we just showed more compassion, people would respect the law were, uhhhh, a bit overdrawn.The story, which ends by noting that there is also bulletproof glass in Subway shopsother progressive meccas like Oakland and Detroit, is here. [read post]
25 Apr 2014, 5:04 am
(photo of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club) Golf, I've heard it said, began in Scotland. [read post]
17 Apr 2014, 6:59 am
However, no big North American city can claim to be on par with bike meccas like Amsterdam and Copenhagen. [read post]
25 Feb 2014, 4:42 am
Mecca v. [read post]
20 Feb 2014, 4:17 am
Dep’t of Justice, Justice Department Settles Religious Discrimination Lawsuit Against Berkeley School District in Illinois (Oct. 13, 2011), available at http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/October/11-crt-1362.html; Eugene Volokh, $75,000 Settlement for Muslim Teacher Denied 19 Days’ Unpaid Leave for Hajj (Pilgrimage to Mecca), The Volokh Conspiracy (Oct. 14, 2011, 10:05 PM),… [read post]
6 Feb 2014, 8:59 am
Concluding that leave was not a reasonable accommodation, the court pointed out that despite taking leave on numerous occasions, it had not improved the employee’s ability to have regular attendance; nor was there any indication that it would do so any point in the near future (Mecca v Florida Health Services Center, Inc, February 3, 2014, Moody, J, Jr). [read post]
20 Jan 2014, 5:19 am
With Lee, Collier and Charlotte counties' having beautiful weather and many interesting locations to visit, there is no question we are a Mecca for motorcycle riding clubs and casual group rides. [read post]
