WELCOME 1435: ISLAMIC NEW YEAR - A TIME OF CONTEMPLATION AND SPIRITUAL RENEWALby Syarif Hidayat
The "Hijra" (Arabic: هِجْرَة hijrah), also Hijrat or Hegira, is the migration or journey of Prophet Muhammad PBUH and his followers from Mecca to Medina between June 21 and July 2 in 622 CE. In June 622 CE, warned of a plot to assassinate him, Muhammad PBUH secretly escaped out of Mecca with Abu Bakr. Muhammad PBUH and his followers immigrated to the city of Yathrib, 320 kilometres (200 mi) north of Mecca, in several steps.
Yathrib was soon renamed Madinat un-Nabi, literally "the City of the Prophet", but un-Nabi was soon dropped, so its name in English is Medina, meaning "the city". The Muslim year during which the Hijra occurred was designated the first year of the Islamic calendar by Umar in 638 or 17 AH (anno hegirae = "in the year of the hijra"). In the following chronology the city will be referred to as Medina, and the region surrounding it as Yathrib.
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