Round 9: Tossup 16

Practitioners of this ritual recite a prayer that states “here I am” four times. During this ritual, which (15[1])begins on the eighth of the “best ten days of the year,” men wear two unhemmed white sheets as clothing. (15[2])Practitioners of this ritual must shave their heads after hitting three walls (15[1])with seven pebbles (15[1])each. Practitioners of this ritual perform the sa’ii to imitate (*) Hagar’s discovery of the Zamzam well during Eid al-Adha. People performing this ritual make tawaaf by running seven counterclockwise laps around the Kaaba. The fifth pillar of Islam is, for 10 points, what annual pilgrimage to Mecca? ■END■

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