Saudi Arabia has reportedly suspended a decision to allow women to perform Hajj and Umrah without a male guardian, a Saudi official has told Egyptian news outlet Masrawy. The move to allow women under the age of 45 to perform pilgrimage without a male chaperone – known as ‘mahram’ in Arabic – has been halted “indefinitely”, Saeed Bahashwan, member of the national committee for Hajj and Umrah, told the outlet, without giving a reason. The initial decision affected “Umrah, and not Hajj”, Bahashwan claimed in contradiction of earlier press reports, referring to the lesser pilgrimage, which is not…