In the Indian subcontinent, hijra are transgender, intersex, or eunuch people who live in communities that follow a kinship system known as the guru-chela...
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Look up Hegira, Hijra, or hijra in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hijra, Hijrah, Hegira, Hejira, Hijrat or Hijri are terms with multiple meanings that...
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Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid (HIJRA) is an African humanitarian organization focused on the implementation of emergency and resilience programming...
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Hijri year (redirect from Hijra year)
abbreviated H ("Hijra") from its Arabic abbreviation hāʾ (هـ). Years prior to AH 1 are reckoned in English as BH ("Before the Hijra"), which should follow...
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Takfir wal-Hijra (Arabic: التكفير والهجرة, translation: "Excommunication and Exodus", alternatively "excommunication and emigration" or "anathema and...
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Hijra Farsi is a secret language spoken by South-Asian Hijra and Kothi (also Koti) communities. Hijras are a marginalized transgender community that lives...
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Emasculation (section Hijra)
within the Hijra community. While some Hijra are emasculated, others are intersex, undeveloped in puberty or impotent. Whether or not a Hijra undergoes...
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Migration to Abyssinia (redirect from First hijra)
Abyssinia (Arabic: الهجرة إلى الحبشة, romanized: al-hijra ʾilā al-habaša), also known as the First Hijra (الهجرة الأولى, al-hijrat al'uwlaa), was an episode...
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The term dār al-hijra (Arabic: دار الهجرة, lit. 'place of exile/refuge/migration') was originally applied to Medina, the city where Muhammad an his followers...
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Islamic New Year (redirect from Al-hijra)
The Islamic New Year (Arabic: رأس السنة الهجرية, Raʿs as-Sanah al-Hijrīyah), also called the Hijri New Year, is the day that marks the beginning of a new...
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