Sentence examples for hegira from inspiring English sources

Curiously, the one tabloid-type-thing that insular Americans may be likely to remember about the Trudeaus — his wife Margaret's Studio 54 hegira, in the nineteen-seventies — has been suggested as a causal agent in Monday's events.

And, add to it, the single most astonishing part of the story, glided past and overlooked by all of its relishing retellers: before his hegira started, Signor Marengo had just run a marathon.

David Beckham left Manchester United (after his coach, the knighted Sir Alex Ferguson, kicked a boot that caught Beckham on the face during a locker room tirade); Beckham's hegira now includes splitting his year between Los Angeles and Milan.

Last year, a group of Preservation people made the hegira to San Francisco and were honored before the game.

Metal objects, he said, have turned up in some abundance in the accumulated dirt that fills the ovens — whether dating back to the coke days or the hippie hegira or somewhere between, he does not know.

Eventually the dust and disorder at the Garden will be replaced by a vastly more expensive new version of the arena, while the Nets continue their loopy hegira from the Meadowlands to Newark and onward to Brooklyn, three-card monte with players.

In some cases the Muslim reckoning of the Islamic era is used, indicated by ah (Latin: anno Hegirae).

It was ʿUmar I, the second caliph, who in the year 639 ce introduced the Hijrah era (now distinguished by the initials ah, for Latin anno Hegirae, "in the year of the Hijrah").

Another lunar calendar, the Muslim, dates from the Hegira July 15, ad 622, the day on which the prophet Muḥammad began his migration from Mecca to Medina.

Covenants (mīthāq, ʿahd) were of great importance in the formative period of Islam (7th century ce, or 1st century ah after the Hijrah [Hegira], the Prophet Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina).

Abū Bakr's prominence in the early Muslim community was clearly marked by Muhammad's marriage to his young daughter ʿĀʾishah and again by Muhammad's choosing Abū Bakr as his companion on the journey to Medina (the Hijrah [Hegira], 622).