This booklet is a succinct practical guide to the gestures and words, obligatory and recommended, related to the performance of the 'umrah at the Sacred House of God, in Mecca.

It contains all the aspects as well as the references (Koran and Sunna) of the rituals of the small pilgrimage ('umra]. It is carried out with a view to a step-by-step application of the various gestures and words that the believer is required to perform, focusing on the related prophetic obligations and recommendations, all this in a concise way without sacrificing the essential.

The work is divided into two parts: a theoretical parity giving the basic knowledge and a practical part where the believer will only have to follow, step by step, all the stages of the 'umra.

Mostafa BRAHAMI

Master's degree in physics (Algiers), doctor in economics (Lausanne), researcher in ethics and intercultural management, teacher of economics and management in Lausanne. The author participates in courses and conferences on Islam, Islamic ethics, usûl al-fiqh, the life of the Prophet, Muslim culture...