hegira
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My own Hegira is a two-block schlep to a neighborhood bagel place, so I’m not the ideal audience for this heady Kerouacian stuff.
From Slate • Mar. 12, 2021
He has told an interviewer that they understand their stay there to be similar to the Prophet Muhammad's Hegira, or migration from Mecca to Medina.
From Time Magazine Archive
After cautious reconnoitering, Mohammed sent his band thither on the so-called Great Hegira.
From Time Magazine Archive
This point, the Hegira, is the beginning of the Moslem calendar.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then began the Fourth Hegira or exodus of the Mormons, the most tragic of them all.
From The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by Beers, R. W.
