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

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

In the north-west corner of the mosque is the tomb of Sidi Okba, the leader of the Arabs who in the 1st century of the Hegira conquered Africa for Islam from Egypt to Tangier.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various