It is celebrated on the first day of Muharram. This important date celebrates the Hijra, the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE. It was a historical ...

Muhammad and his followers moved from Mecca to Medina. That event, the Hijra, became for Islam Year 1 of an entirely new calendar. For his followers, the prophet's teachings had so transformed ...

In the long chain of significant events in the history of Prophet Muhammad’s (peace be upon ... of Ramadan in 624 AD (the second year of the Hijra) about 50 miles south-west of Madina near ...

Muhammad and his followers moved from Mecca to Medina. That event, the Hijra, became for Islam Year 1 of an entirely new calendar. For his followers, the prophet's teachings had so transformed ...