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

This point, the Hegira, is the beginning of the Moslem calendar.

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 Mohammedans always reckon their time from the “Hegira,” or flight of the Prophet from Mecca to Medina; but while the Mohammedans have only one Hegira in their history, the Mormons have four.

From The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by Beers, R. W.