Muhammad and his followers emigrate from Mecca to Yathrib, renamed Medina, where he becomes the head of a community bound by the Constitution of Medina; the migration opens year one of the Islamic calendar.
Tagged: Ibadi Islam Muslim Sunni Islam Twelver Shia Islam
The Event
- Date
- 622 (exact)
- Also called
- The Hijra
- Era
- Prophetic; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Medina; today Medina, Saudi Arabia
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Sunni Islam, Twelver Shia Islam, Ibadi Islam
- Key figures
- Muhammad, Abu Bakr
- Key texts
- Constitution of Medina
Primary Sources
- Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah
- The Constitution of Medina
Secondary Sources
- Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates (Routledge, 3rd ed. 2016)
- Berkey, The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge, 2003)
Provenance: HIST-0203; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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