Muhajir or Mohajir ( ar, مهاجر, '; pl. , ') is an

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...

word meaning ''migrant'' (see

immigration Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...

and

emigration Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanentl ...

) which is also used in other languages spoken by

Muslims Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abraha ...

, including English. In

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

, this term and its derivatives may refer in a general sense to individuals or groups, including the following incomplete list:

Groups

Muhajirun The ''Muhajirun'' ( ar, المهاجرون, al-muhājirūn, singular , ) were the first converts to Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad's advisors and relatives, who emigrated with him from Mecca to Medina, the event known in Islam as the ''Hijr ...

, the early Muslims (Muhammad and his companions) who migrated from Mecca to Medina in modern-day Saudi Arabia * Muhacir (Turkish variant), Ottoman Muslims who emigrated to Anatolia from the late 18th century until the end of the 20th century *

Muhaxhir (Albanians) Muhaxhir and Muhaxher (plural: Muhaxhirë and Muhaxherë, meaning "Muslim refugees") are terms borrowed from Ottoman tr, muhacir and derived from Arabic ''muhajir''. "All these new arrivals were known as muhaxhirs (Trk.: muhacir Srb.: muhadžir), ...

, Ottoman Albanian communities that left their homes as refugees or were transferred because of various wars * Muhajir (Pakistan), Indian Muslims and their descendants who migrated to Pakistan after the Partition of British India in August 1947

Organizations

Al-Muhajiroun Al-Muhajiroun ( ar, المهاجرون, "The Emigrants") is a Proscription, proscribed militant network based in Saudi Arabia. The founder of the group was Omar Bakri Muhammad, a Syrian who previously belonged to ''Hizb ut-Tahrir''; he was not p ...

, a banned Salafi Islamic jihadist terrorist network that was formerly based in the United Kingdom

Vehicles

Qods Mohajer The Qods Mohajer ( fa, مهاجر, "Immigrant"; loanword is Arabic for "Al-Quds (disambiguation), holy migrant" or "sacred migrant") is an Iranian single-engine tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) built by the Qods Aviation Industry Company i ...

, Arabic for "sacred migrant"

People

* Al-Muhajir ibn Abi Umayya (), early Muslim commander * Muhajir ibn Khalid (died 657), partisan of Caliph Ali * Abu al-Muhajir Dinar (died 683), governor of Ifriqiya (North Africa) under the Umayyad Caliphate * Ismail ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi al-Muhajir (), governor of Ifriqiya (North Africa) under the Umayyad Caliphate * Ahmad al-Muhajir (873–956), progenitor of the Sadah Ba 'Alawi group of Hadhrami Sayyid families *

Abu Hamza al-Muhajir Abu Ayyub al-Masri ( ; , ', translation: "Father of Ayyub the Egyptian"; 1967 – 18 April 2010), also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir

(1968–2010), leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq after June 2006 *Abdullah al-Muhajir, alias of José Padilla (born 1970), U.S. citizen who was convicted of aiding terrorists in 2007 * Abu Sulayman al-Muhajir (born 1984), senior member of al-Qaeda's Al-Nusra Front * Muhadjir Effendy (born 1956), 28th Indonesian Minister of Education and Culture

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