Word: hegira
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Kissinger's 17-day hegira was a long-planned private tour. He was riding not in an Air Force plane but a corporate jet, in company with his wife Nancy, CBS Chairman William Paley and Brooke Astor, the New York socialite who gave a postelection party for Ronald Reagan. Yet both Kissinger's itinerary and his comments to the press left the impression that he was trying to help fashion a Middle East strategy for the incoming Reagan Administration. After his talks with Sadat, Kissinger announced that the Egyptian leader would be received as an "honored friend...
...Islamic calendar, this is the year 1399. dated from Muhammad's Hegira to Medina...
...imperial calendar dates from the founding of the Iranian monarchy by Cyrus the Great in 559 B.C., the Islamic from the Prophet Mohammed's Hegira from Mecca to Medina...
With the conquest of Mecca eight years after the Hegira, Mohammed destroyed the idols and cleansed the sacred house of its pagan deities. He re-established it as a place of worship to God alone. Reverting it to its original use he could then perform the pilgrimage "hajj," setting an example for millions of his followers throughout the ages. All rituals of the pilgrimage are rich in traditions reflecting the religious actions of Abraham (Mohammed...
Americans have followed Alexander Solzhenitsyn's distant struggle with the Soviet government and his final, forced hegira into exile with the kind of awe that might attend the trial and burning of Joan of Arc. He is the world's most celebrated writer. The Gulag Archipelago, with massive printings now pouring its cornucopia of Communist cruelties into book clubs and bookstores all over the U.S., seems about to become his most popular work...