Hijra
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Hijra may refer to:
- Migration to Abyssinia, in 615 CE a number of Sahaba migrated to Ethiopia,
- Hijra (Islam), the emigration of Muhammad and his followers to the city of Medina in 622
- *Migration to Medina, an event where Muhammad prepared his small community of Meccan Muslims to migrate to Medina
- *Hijri year, marks the start of the Hijri year of the Islamic calendar
- Hijra (South Asia), a "third gender" in India and Pakistan
- Hejira (album), a 1976 album by Joni Mitchell.
- *Hejira (song), the 5th track on the album
- Hegira (novel), a 1979 science fiction novel by Greg Bear
- The migration of humanity to the stars in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos books
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