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

The great Hegira, led by Charles E. Hughes, was at the cordial invitation of the Bench and Bar of England.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Hoei-Hoei do not keep the new year at the same time with the Chinese, for in their special calendar they observe the Hegira of Mahomet. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis