the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 which marked the beginning of the Muslim era; the Muslim calendar begins in that year
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hegira::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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For Jews in Eastern Europe, that hegira is still difficult and at times even heartbreaking.
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Kissinger's 17-day hegira was a long-planned private tour.
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Only last year, many sociologists and psychiatrists dismissed the hippie hegira with a verbal flick of the wrist.
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It is the latest signpost in the Bush Administration's hegira from lunatic idealism to utter desperation in Iraq, and it comes at a crucial moment.
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Apparently, Hughes boarded a chartered boat for the first stage of his hegira-the 180-mile trip to an unspecified coastal haven somewhere near Miami.
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Some time this month he is due to begin a two-week tour of the Soviet Union, climaxing a two-month hegira that has already carried him through six African and East European countries.
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- The flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 which marked the beginning of the Muslim era; the Muslim calendar begins in that year
- Exodus: a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment
- Hegira is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear (ISBN 0-7592-0684-8). It deals with themes including cyclic time, artificial intelligence, artificial life, and artificial structures of planetary scale.
- The flight of Mohammed from Mecca to Median which was instrumental to the founding of the religion of Islam. Occurs in 622 ACE, which dates the founding of Islam.
- Victorious Clan warriors sometimes extend the courtesy of hegira to defeated opponents. Hegira allows the opponent to withdraw honorably from the field without further combat or cost.
- (Gen.) The Muslim lunar calendar, dating from 622 C.E.
- N.s. [Arabick.] A term in chronology, signifying the epocha, or account of time, used by the Arabians and Turks, who begin their computation from the day that Mahomet was forced to make his escape from the city of Mecca, which happened on Friday July 16, A.D. ...
- The expatriation of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) when he left Mekka for Yathrib, which became Medina (Medinat al- Nabi), the city of the Prophet. This event took place in 622 AD and marked the birth of the Islamic era.
- The Islamic way of recording dates using the lunar year which is shorter than the solar year.
