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Definition of Hejira
1. Noun. The flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 which marked the beginning of the Muslim era; the Muslim calendar begins in that year.
2. Noun. A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment.
Definition of Hejira
1. n. See Hegira.
Definition of Hejira
1. Noun. (alternative form of hegira) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hejira
1. hegira [n -S] - See also: hegira
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hejira
Literary usage of Hejira
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Analysis of Chronology and Geography, History and Prophecy: In which by William Hales (1830)
"305., which is here republished, in an improved form; marking the several cycles,
in which the preceding and following years of the hejira, at the end of ..."
2. The Brontës in Ireland: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction by William Wright (1893)
"It was a local hejira in the current calendar. Women would speak of their children
as born or their daughters married so many years before or after the ..."
3. The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1858)
"Tlie Life of Mahomet, and History of Islam to the Era of the hejira. By William
Muir, Esq., Bengal Civil Service. ..."
4. Controversial Tracts on Christianity and Mohammedanismby Henry Martyn by Henry Martyn (1824)
"... makes the number 1031, for the date of the hejira, which answers to AD 1621.
We then have this epigraphe. This manuscript was finished on Thursday the ..."
5. Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society by James Prinsep (1840)
"hejira CALENDAR. 1. To find the Christian date corresponding with any Muhammedan
date of the hejira era,—say the 17th of Rajab 1201 AH Take the initial day ..."
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