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

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

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 lean class, which penetrates everything—industry, commerce, the administration—mighty by encompassing the people, so vigorous, so ready in the first days of our Hegira, will it not, as in 1792, rise for the common weal?

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.