Muhajir
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Muhajir or Mohajir (Arabic: مهاجر) is an Arabic word meaning refugee or immigrant or emigrant. The Islamic calendar Hejira starts when Muhammad and his companions left Mecca for Madina. They were called Muhajirs. The Arabic root word for immigration and emigration is Hijrat.
Several Muslim refugee groups have been termed as Muhajir or Mohajirs over the centuries.
- Muhammad and his companions escaped from Mecca to Madina
- Muhajir Khwarezm are the Muslim refugees that escaped Genghiz Khan's Mongol invasion of Muslim lands in 13th century and they settled in other Muslim lands not touched by this calamity. Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi fled Afghanistan and settled in Anatolia to escape the Mongol army.
- Muhajir Crimean are the Muslim refugees of Crimean ancestry that settled in Ottoman Empire after the Russian Empire conquered Muslim Crimean Khanate.
- Muhajir Caucasian are the Muslim refugees of Caucasian ancestry that settled in Ottoman Empire after the Russian Empire conquered Muslim regions in Caucasia.
- Muhajir Balkan are the Muslims of Balkan ancestry that settled in Turkey after the collapse of Ottoman Empire.
- Muhajir Urdu are the Urdu speaking Muslims refugees who settled in Pakistan after the independence in 1947.
- Palestinian refugees are the Palestinian refugees that were displaced by UN plan to partition Palestine in 1948.
- Muhajir Afghan are the Muslim refugees from Afghanistan that escaped the Soviet occupation in 1979 and later the Taliban atrocities.
- Muhajir (Albania) are the Albanian speaking Muslims who became refugees in Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Greece after the collapse of Yugoslavia.
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