{"id":6851,"date":"2017-08-31T17:58:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T17:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/31\/annual-pilgrimage-to-mecca-an-important-part-of-muslim-faith\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:58:09","slug":"annual-pilgrimage-to-mecca-an-important-part-of-muslim-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/annual-pilgrimage-to-mecca-an-important-part-of-muslim-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual pilgrimage to Mecca an important part of Muslim faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The city of Mecca is again welcoming millions of Muslim pilgrims, making the arduous journey from all corners of the globe to what is nowadays Saudi Arabia,&#8221; says Furman religion professor Alfons Teipen. In a guest column he wrote for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/08\/30\/annual-pilgrimage-mecca-important-part-muslim-faith\/618314001\/\"><em><strong>The Greenville News<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Teipen offers some history about the ritual and points out parallels between the Abrahamic traditions of the Qur&#8217;an and those of the Bible. \u00a0In a separate note, Teipen says his hope for the article is &#8220;to make Muslims feel more welcome (in Greenville and at Furman), and demonstrate that we are a welcoming and diverse community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The city of Mecca is again welcoming millions of Muslim pilgrims, making the arduous journey from all corners of the globe to what is nowadays Saudi Arabia,&#8221; says Furman religion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-religion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}