Hijra

Hijra, Hijrah, Hegira, Hejira, Hijrat or Hijri are terms with multiple meanings that 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
• Lunar Hijri calendar (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 (Anno Hegirae, AH), the number of a year in the Hijri calendar
• Solar Hijri calendar, a solar Islamic calendar used primarily in Iran and Afghanistan

Literature

• Hijra, by the Malayalam poet Moyinkutty Vaidyar
• Hegira (novel), by Greg Bear, 1979
• Hegira, a fictional exodus from Earth in the Hyperion Cantos novels

Music

• Hejira (album), by Joni Mitchell, 1976
• Hejira (band), a British Joni Mitchell cover band
• Hijrah, a 2016 album by George Hirsch

Other uses

• HIJRA (Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid), an African organization
• Hijra (South Asia), a term for eunuchs, transgender and intersex people
• Hijrat, a South Asian term for protest emigration
• Hijrat (film), Pakistani, 2016

See also

• Hijara, a board game
• Hiigara, in the computer game Homeworld