Putting on the West’s first big exhibition about the haj has been a challenge. The British Museum had to deal with 40 individual lenders from the Netherlands to Timbuktu, numerous different government ministries in Saudi Arabia and a nervous Saudi embassy in London. The effort has paid off.

Putting on the West’s first big exhibition about the haj has been a challenge. The British Museum had to deal with 40 individual lenders from the Netherlands to Timbuktu, numerous different government ministries in Saudi Arabia and a nervous Saudi embassy in London. The effort has paid off.

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