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It was the first day of a new year. In fact, it was the first day of a new century. In the Islamic calendar, November 20, 1979, corresponded to the first day of the month of Muharram, 1400. And for a few hundred men and women gathered in the Holiest Mosque in the Holiest City of Islam, this day was to be the start of a new era. They were going to bring down the Saudi ruling family and establish a new Islamic order.
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McMillan, M.E. (2016). Mecca: Tuesday, November 20, 1979. In: From the First World War to the Arab Spring. Middle East Today. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137522023_20
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