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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But, in her case, the marriage was not consummated until many years later, at Al-Madinah, after the Hegira.

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Dinet, Etienne