As a young adult, he lived in New York City and in Boston and got involved in illegal activities. He converted to Islam while in prison on a burglary offense. He changed his surname to “X” to indicate that his true last name was unknown since Little had been the name of an ensl...
The end of the Ramadan fast is celebrated asEid al-Fitr, the “Feast of Fast-Breaking,” which is one of the two major religious holidays of the Muslim calendar (the other,Eid al-Adha, marks the end of thehajj, thepilgrimagetoMeccathat all Muslims are expected to perform at least once...
29). He argues that the black box placed upon the three-legged stool is reminiscent of the Ka’ba in Mecca, “known for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, one of the five pillars of Islam” (Al-Joulan 2010, p. 32). The fact that the townspeople are gathered around the black box Al-Jou...