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

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

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

It is stated by D’Herbelot that the era of the Hegira was instituted by Omar, the second caliph, in imitation of the Christian era of the martyrs.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various