Bible Encyclopedias
Hejira
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Arabic, "going away"), a word applied to Mahomet's flight from Mecca to Medina in A.D. 622; Calif Omar, 17 years later, adopted this date as the starting-point of a new Mohammedan calendar.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Hejira'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/h/hejira.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.