HEGIRA

or Hejiraboth: hĭjīˈrə, hĕjˈərə [Ar.,=Hijra=breaking off of relations], the departure of the prophet Muhammad from Mecca in Sept., 622. Muhammad was a monotheist and preached against the polytheism of the Meccan religion. This aroused the hostility of the merchant leaders of his native city, who derived much of their wealth from pilgrimages to Mecca and its surrounding cities. Forced to flee from his enemies, Muhammad went to Yathrib (later renamed Medina), where he became ruler. The Muslim era is dated from the first day (July 16, 622, in the Western calendar) of the lunar year in which the Hegira took place, and the abbreviation a.h. is used with that year (a.h. 1) and subsequent years.

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The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer
Book by Georges Ifrah, David Bellos, E. F. Harding, Sophie Wood, Ian Monk; John Wiley & Sons, 2000
Subjects: Numeration--History
...siege, entered Tangier in 1095 of the Hegira (1684 CE) after its English occupiers...of the Rif, died in year 1103 of the Hegira (1691 1692), Sultan Ismail gave to...this mans biography After 1139 of the Hegira (1726 1727), following the death of...
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History and Traditions of the Gonja
Book by J. A. Braimah, H. H. Tomlinson, Osafroadu Amankwatia; University of Calgary Press, 1997
Subjects: Gonja (African People), Gonja Region (Ghana)--History
...one years. This was in the year of Hegira 1176. In the ninth month of the following...on a Friday came the 1177th year of the Hegira. On a Sunday on the thirteenth day of...he sat at Kulipe. In the year of the Hegira 1178 he was at Kulipe and after eight...
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Mapping Time: The Calendar and Its History
Book by E. G. Richards; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Calendar--History, Calendars--History
...sometimes mistakenly taken to be that of the Hegira the Prophets flight from Mecca to Medina...Umar chose 622 in order to commemorate the Hegira, and the era is generally known as the era of the Hegira AH . The actual day, 16 July, was determined...
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Islam
Book by Henri Massé, Halide Edib; G.P. Putnams Sons, 1938
Subjects: Islam
...less clearly: the period at Mecca before the Hegira, and that at Medina, after the Hegira. This criterion, without being absolute, gives satisfactory results. A. BEFORE THE HEGIRA. Regarding the Suras of the first period...
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Ottoman-Polish Diplomatic Relations (15th-18th Century): An Annotated Edition of 'Ahdnames and Other Documents
Book by Dariusz Kolodziejczyk; Brill, 2000
Subjects: Poland--Foreign Relations--1572-1763--Sources, Poland--Foreign Relations--Turkey--Sources, Turkey--Foreign Relations--Poland--Sources, Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Sources
...cf the year 1007 since the emigration Hegira) of the Prophet {may the most superior...1016 since the date of the emi- gration Hegira of our great prophet, His Excellency...of the year 1032 since the emigration Hegira of the Prophet {may the most superior...
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journal articles on: Hegira  - 32 results

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Inclusion in Old Literary Criticism
Journal article by Hashim Al- Azzam; International Forum of Teaching and Studies, Vol. 6, 2010
Subjects: Research & development--R&D, Studies
...Muhammad Bin Al - Muthanna (210 of the Hegira), who considered inclusion as the concealed...Tabaqat Fuhoul AL- Shuara (232 of the Hegira) that people of AL- Badiyah heard a...their poetry. AL-Jahidh (255 of the Hegira) considered an oration without quotation...
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The Intelligence Divide: a Contemplative Survey of Human History
Journal article by Seymour W. Itzkoff; Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 43, 2002
Subjects: Evolution, Hominids, Intelligence
...migrated Out-of-Africa before them during that primeval hegira. This clearly would have been a genocide of epochal proportions...and challenging. Below the Bar The real story of Homos long hegira through evolutionary history is the ever greater dominance of...
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Roth, Rushdie, and Rage: Religious Reactions to Portnoy and the Verses *
Journal article by David J. Zucker; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 43, 2008
Subjects: Portnoy's Complaint (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Religious criticism--Evaluation, Roth, Philip (American novelist)--Comparative analysis, Roth, Philip (American novelist)--Works, Rushdie, Salman--Comparative analysis, Rushdie, Salman--Works, The Satanic Verses (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...Press, 1990), p. 10. (25) Lamin Sanneh, "Rushdies Moral Hegira," The Christian Century 106 (June 21-28, 1989): 623...offensiveness of the Verses, see Sanneh, "Rushdies Moral Hegira," pp. 622-626. (28) The name "Mahound" in itself is...
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Civilization, Republic, Nation: Contested Keywords, Northern Republicans, and the Forgotten Reconstruction of Mormon Utah
Journal article by David Prior; Civil War History, Vol. 56, 2010
Subjects: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Political aspects, Civil war--Political aspects, Colfax, Schuyler--Political activity, Harper's (Periodical)--Political aspects, Harvard University--Political aspects, Leslie, Frank (American illustrator)--Political activity, Political parties, Republican Party (United States)--Political aspects
...Harpers Weekly anticipated troubles for the church; it suggested that either the Mormons would follow Young in another "hegira" or disperse, for there seemed "to be no successor of Young who can command the people by his personal power." (52) Republicans...
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The Vienna Beethoven Centennial Festival of 1870
Journal article by Scott Messing; The Beethoven Newsletter, Vol. 6, 1991
...unassuming majesty has gradually conquered the world.10 Joachims casting himself as the fortunate pilgrim attending a musical hegira is a noteworthy characterization, one to which I will return. The moralizing tone that Joachim took apparently required some...
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Of Myth and Men
Magazine article by Robert M. Price; Free Inquiry, Vol. 20, Winter 1999
Subjects: Gautama Buddha--Conduct of life, Jesus Christ--Conduct of life, Moses (Biblical figure)--Conduct of life, Muhammad--Conduct of life, Religion--Research
...Hagarenes because they were engaged in a Hegira/Hijra, an Exodus like that of Moses...exegetes. The abandonment of the Exodus (Hegira/Hijra) association in favor of that...sense as the goal of the Exodus (the "hegira" of the "Hagarenes," remember...
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Getting Better All the Time-Or Maybe Not
Magazine article by Peter Heinegg; Cross Currents, Vol. 59, December 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Evolution of God (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Go ye therefore, and teach all nations." And, to reverse directions, the pre-Hegira Muhammad of Mecca is friendlier to the Jews than the post-Hegira Muhammad. These are all matters of fact; the issue is what to make of them. What Wright...
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My Path from Middle East to Midwest Has Lots of Stepping Stones
Magazine article by Marilyn Raschka; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XIV, March 31, 1996
Subjects: Culture, Lebanon, Minority & ethnic groups, Social life & customs, Traditions, Wisconsin
...directions in hand we found it easily. The friend who was driving said, "This is a hegira, or however you pronounce it," looking to me for the correct rendition. Hegira indeed--like my unconscious quest to find bits and pieces of the Middle East...
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Weyerhaeuser Lumber's Unknown Fleet
Magazine article by Robert T. McClaren; Sea Classics, Vol. 43, July 2010
...three more ships joined the fleet - SS Henron, SS Hanleyand SS Hegira. Each ship was incorporated as a separate company. In 1933...fourth life boat. All were taken to Reykjavik, Iceland. The SS Hegira was in the same convoy but managed to slip into a Cord to escape...
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Countdown to the Beginning of Time-Keeping
Magazine article by Robert Garland; History Today, Vol. 49, April 1999
Subjects: Calendar, Julian--History, Calendar--History, Time measurement--History
...created, i.e. October 6th, 3761 BC. Muslims calculate from the year after the Hegira or flight of Mohammed to Mecca in AD 622, which makes the current year Ab Hegira, or AH, 1419. Hindus calculate from the birth of Bramha. No society, however...
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newspaper articles on: Hegira  - 12 results

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Ramadan Starts Today; Muslims All over the World Fast to Strengthen Faith
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 15, 2004
...night for Filipinos the first day of Ramadan in the Islamic Hegira calendar (year 1425) to coincide with the Gregorians Oct...the sighting of the new moon of Shawwal, 10th month of the Hegira, with the celebration called Eidl Fitr, the Festival of Breaking...
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Prize Crossword
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 7, 2010
...Eiffel, 26 Cheltenham Gold Cup, 28 So What, 29 Barrie, 30 Lloyd, 32 Los Angeles, 36 Smolensk, 38 Stoker, 39 Aerie, 40 Hegira, 41 Esher, 42 Beowulf, 43 Thumb. DOWN: 2 Adieu, 3 Wisdom teeth, 5 Vespasian, 6 Nigel, 7 Ottoman, 9 Agent, 10 Blood...
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The Prize Crossword; WIN [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; February 7, 2010
...Eiffel, 26 Cheltenham Gold Cup, 28 So What, 29 Barrie, 30 Lloyd, 32 Los Angeles, 36 Smolensk, 38 Stoker, 39 Aerie, 40 Hegira, 41 Esher, 42 Beowulf, 43 Thumb. DOWN: 2 Adieu, 3 Wisdom teeth, 5 Vespasian, 6 Nigel, 7 Ottoman, 9 Agent, 10 Blood...
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Islamic New Year: Amun Jadid
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 9, 2005
...Hijra the first day of the month of Muharram, which is the first month of the lunar Hijrah calendar. It marks the Hijra (or Hegira) in 622 CE when the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) moved from Mecca to Medina, and set up the first Islamic state...
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Vermont Hike, Irish Diaspora, China
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 11, 2004
Subjects: Johnson, Ian
...the Irishman adrift in exile, caterwauling about among even crazier creatures than he. This story is plainly is one mans hegira, the authors first-person account of how he went in search of his namesakes throughout the world. Well, throughout some...
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encyclopedia articles on: Hegira  - 10 results

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Hegira
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HEGIRA or Hejira both: hiji r , hej r Ar.,= Hijra =breaking off of relations...July 16, 622, in the Western calendar) of the lunar year in which the Hegira took place, and the abbreviation a.h. is used with that year (a.h...
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Calendar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Western calendar (a.h. Anno Hegirae=in the year of the Hegira is used to indicate the Islamic year). Muharram 1, a.h...years from a fixed point (e.g., the birth of Jesus and the Hegira), see era . The adoption of such era systems has made computation...
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Abu Bakr
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...successor of Muhammad. He was probably Muhammads first convert outside the Prophets family and alone accompanied Muhammad on the Hegira. The marriage of Abu Bakrs daughter Aishah to Muhammad made the ties even stronger. On the Prophets death in 632, Umar secured...
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Mecca
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...center of commerce and a place of great sanctity for idolatrous Arab sects before the rise of Muhammad. Muhammads flight (the Hegira) from Mecca in 622 is the beginning of the rise of Islam. He captured the city shortly after. Although Mecca never lost its...
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Medina , City, Saudi Arabia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...inland from the Red Sea in a well-watered oasis where fruit, dates, vegetables, and grain are raised. Before the flight (Hegira) of Muhammad from Mecca to the city in 622, Medina was called Yathrib. Muhammad quickly gained control of Medina, successfully...
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