In his 2014 book, Mecca: The Sacred City, historian Ziauddin Sardar notes that during the second half of the 18th Century, the city had acquired a distinctively Indian character with its economy ...

As the annual Hajj pilgrimage draws to a close, a long-settled corner of Mecca is stirring up a storm thousands of miles away in India - not for its spiritual significance, but for a 50-year-old ...

A now-demolished guest house in Mecca is at the centre of a bitter family tussle in India. ... not for its spiritual significance, but for a 50-year-old inheritance dispute. ...