1569-190X/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V doi:10.1016/j.simpat.2010.12.004 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +60 17 4179800. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S. Sarma Masjid Al-Haram in Saudi Arabia is one of the most crowded pilgrimage locations in the world. More than two million pilgrims gather in Saudi Arabia annually during the Hajj season, and it is compulsory for them to perform a s...

The greatest security threat to the sovereignty of Nigeria today is the Boko Haram insurgency. The terrorist have carried their campaign of terror up to the police force headquarters. These developments led to the belief in many circles that Islam and terrorism are synonymous. The paper in its attempt to capture the issue of National security in Islam describes the Qur’anic schools that intend ...

The scared cities of Makkah Al Mukarramah and Madina Al Munawarah host millions of pilgrims every year. During Hajj, the movement of large number of people has a unique spatial and temporal constraints, which makes Hajj one of toughest challenges for crowd management. In this paper, we propose a computer vision based framework that automatically analyses video sequence and computes important me...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the diseases pattern among pilgrims attending the 2 Holy Mosque (Haram) Health Care Centers during the Hajj season 2013 (Hijra 1434).  METHODS In this cross-sectional study, data was collected from 2 medical centers located in the Holy Mosque in Makkah city, Saudi Arabia, from the first of Dhul-Hijjah to sixteenth Dhul-Hijjah 1434. The present study was completed in 16 d...