hegira

• Which must have been rapid: Islam had exploded out of Arabia in the first century after the hegira, he was coming to understand. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Before the first hegira, before the year one, right in the middle of this tribal chaos of murder and theft, this monkey society, God told Mohammed to change it all. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• This event is called the hijra or hegira (the Latin pronunciation of the Arabic word). —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• I also believe his speeches to have been very sophisticated, all the more so post-hegira which tragically led to the NOI power struggle costing him his life. —  Editorials from Hell's leading daily newspaper
• In 661, scarcely forty years after the hegira or flight of Mohammed, from which good Mohammedans date their era, the capital was transferred from Medina to Damascus, to be transferred from here to Bagdad just about a century later, where it remained until the Mongols made an end of the Abbasside rulers about the middle of the thirteenth century. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages

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