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
After cautious reconnoitering, Mohammed sent his band thither on the so-called Great Hegira.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
This point, the Hegira, is the beginning of the Moslem calendar.
From Time Magazine Archive
He certainly has no reason to be ashamed of his rôle in the Eastern world for a thousand years after the Mohammedan Hegira.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
