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Hijra, Hijrah, Hegira, Hejira, Hijrat or Hijri may refer to:


Islam

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Hijrah The Hijrah or Hijra () was the journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina. The year in which the Hijrah took place is also identified as the epoch of the Lunar Hijri and Solar Hijri calendars; its date eq ...
(often written as ''Hejira'' in older texts), the migration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE *
Migration to Abyssinia The migration to Abyssinia ( ar, الهجرة إلى الحبشة, translit=al-hijra ʾilā al-habaša), also known as the First Hijra ( ar, الهجرة الأولى, translit=al-hijrat al'uwlaa, label=none), was an episode in the early histor ...
or First Hegira, of Muhammad's followers in 615 CE *
Lunar Hijri calendar The Hijri calendar ( ar, ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, translit=al-taqwīm al-hijrī), also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or ...
(widely known as "the Islamic calendar", although there is more than one Islamic calendar), the lunar calendar used by the majority of Muslims **
Hijri year The Hijri year ( ar, سَنة هِجْريّة) or era ( ''at-taqwīm al-hijrī'') is the era used in the Islamic lunar calendar. It begins its count from the Islamic New Year in which Muhammad and his followers migrated from Mecca to Yathrib ...
(, AH), the number of a year in the Hijri calendar *
Solar Hijri calendar The Solar calendar ( fa, گاه‌شماری هجری خورشیدی, Gâhšomâri-ye Xoršidi; ps, لمريز لېږدیز کلیز, lamrez legdez kalhandara; ku, ڕۆژژمێری کۆچیی ھەتاوی, Salnameya Koçberiyê) is a solar ...
, a solar Islamic calendar used primarily in Iran and Afghanistan


Literature

* ''Hijra'', by the Malayalam poet
Moyinkutty Vaidyar Moyinkutty Vaidyar (1852–1892), often referred to as ''Mahakavi'' (great poet), is historically considered one of the most renowned poets of the Mappila pattu genre of Malayalam language. Personal life Moyinkutty was born to Unni Mammad a ...
* ''Hegira'' (novel), by Greg Bear, 1979 *Hegira, a fictional exodus from Earth in the ''
Hyperion Cantos The ''Hyperion Cantos'' is a series of science fiction novels by Dan Simmons. The title was originally used for the collection of the first pair of books in the series, '' Hyperion'' and '' The Fall of Hyperion'', and later came to refer to the ...
'' novels


Music

* ''Hejira'' (album), by Joni Mitchell, 1976 * ''Hijrah'', a 2016 album by George Hirsch


Other uses

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HIJRA Hijra, Hijrah, Hegira, Hejira, Hijrat or Hijri may refer to: Islam * Hijrah (often written as ''Hejira'' in older texts), the migration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE * Migration to Abyssinia or First Hegira, of Muhammad's followers ...
(Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid), an African organization *
Hijra (South Asia) In the Indian subcontinent, hijra    ur}    bn,     kn,     te,     pa,     or, , and / ''khusra'' (Punjabi). are eunuchs, intersex people, or transgender people who live in ...
, a term for eunuchs, and intersex and transgender people * Hijrat, a South Asian term for
protest emigration Protest emigration (also called ''hijrat'' or ''deshatyaga'' in South Asia) is the use of emigration as an activist tactic when it is felt political change is not currently possible inside a jurisdiction. Gene Sharp in ''The Politics of Nonviolent ...
* ''Hijrat'' (film), Pakistani, 2016


See also

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Hijara ''Hijara'' is a two-player abstract strategy board game played with small stones. It has been likened to a three-dimensional game on a two-dimensional board. The game was designed by Martin H. Samuel and first printed, as ''Excel'', by American ...
, a board game * Hiigara, in the computer game ''
Homeworld ''Homeworld'' is a real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment, Sierra Studios on September 28, 1999, for Microsoft Windows. Set in space, the science fiction game follows the Kushan exil ...
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