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HEJIRA ,' or HEGIRA (Arab. hijra, flight, departure from one's country, from hajara, to go away), the name of the Mahommedan
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Mahomet " fled " from Mecca to Medina to escape the persecution of his kinsmen of the Koreish tribe. The years of this era are distinguished by the initials " A.II." (anno
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Mahomet arrived at Kufa on the Hebrew Day of Atonement. Although Mahomet himself appears to have dated events by his flight, it was not till seventeen years later that the actual era was systematized by Omar, the second caliph
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For the problems of Moslem chronology and comparative
ea_ i The i in the second syllable is short. MAHOMET),Wiistenfeld, Vergleichungstabellen der muhammedanischen and christlichen Zeitrechnung (2nd ed., Leipzig
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