Practice question · Numerical answer
In which year did the Hijra, the migration from Mecca to Medina that begins the Islamic calendar, take place?
Hints
- It is a decade before Muhammad’s death in 632.
- Six hundred and twenty-two.
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622
Why
622, which is year 1 AH. The calendar is lunar, so Islamic years run about eleven days shorter than solar ones and the two counts drift apart, a common source of arithmetic errors when converting between them.
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