concept

Hijra

Beliefs & concepts

Emigration for God’s sake as a named Islamic historical-creed motif. Not exile as bare displacement alone, and not ḥajj as pilgrimage.

Also known as Hijrah · Hegira

Islam

  • Hijra appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an repeatedly praises those who emigrated (hājarū) in God’s way and couples emigration with striving. Islamic emigration speech in that revelation, not Medina as the place already walked and not exile as a generic banishment dump.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).