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

Islam

Hijrah The Hijrah, () also Hegira (from Medieval Latin), was the journey the prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers took from Mecca to Medina. The year in which the Hijrah took place is also identified as the e ...

(also ''Hejira'' or ''Hegira''), the migration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE *

Migration to Abyssinia The migration to Abyssinia (), also known as the First Hijra (), was an episode in the early history of Islam, where the first followers of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (they were known as the Sahabah, or the companions) migrated from Arabia du ...

or First Hegira, of Muhammad's followers in 615 CE *

Lunar Hijri calendar The Hijri calendar (), also known in English as the Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to determine the proper days of Islamic holidays and rituals, such as the an ...

(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 () or era () 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 (now Medina) in 622 CE. This event, known as the Hij ...

(, AH), the number of a year in the Hijri calendar *

Solar Hijri calendar The Solar Hijri calendar is the official calendar of Iran. It is a solar calendar, based on the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Each year begins on the day of the March equinox and has years of 365 or 366 days. It is sometimes also called the S ...

, a solar Islamic calendar used primarily in Iran

Literature

* ''Hijra'', by the Malayalam poet

Moyinkutty Vaidyar Hakim Muheen, Officially known as Moyinkutty Vaidyar or Doctor Moyin Kutty (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 langu ...

* ''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 *

Hejira (band) Hejira is a British band that celebrates Joni Mitchell's jazz period. The group was created by Pete Oxley of The Spin jazz club in Oxford for a one-off Joni Mitchell Roberta Joan Mitchell (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian a ...

, a British Joni Mitchell cover band * ''Hijrah'', a 2016 album by George Hirsch

Other uses

HIJRA Hijra, Hijrah, Hegira, Hejira, Hijrat or Hijri may refer to: Islam * Hijrah (also ''Hejira'' or ''Hegira''), the migration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE * Migration to Abyssinia or First Hegira, of Muhammad's followers in 615 CE * L ...

(Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid), an African organization *

Hijra (South Asia) In South Asia, hijra are transgender, intersex, or eunuch people who live in communities that follow a kinship system known as the guru-chela system. They are also known as aravani and aruvani, and in Pakistan, khawaja sira. In Western terms ...

, a term for eunuchs, transgender and intersex 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

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