4382 AM · 622 CE · world history
The Hijra and the Rise of Islam
Muhammad's move from Mecca to Medina opens the Muslim calendar.
In Mecca the preaching of one God met resistance, so Muhammad and his followers move to Yathrib, which becomes Medina. There the community of believers becomes a polity as well. Muslims count years from the Hijra. Within a century the new faith rules from Spain to Central Asia.
Sources
Documents of the period
- documents and inscriptions of the period — early Arabic inscriptions and coins dated from the Hijra
Scholarship
- Arabic and Ottoman chronicles — the life of the Prophet (sira) and the chronicles of the Arab conquests
Basis: documents and evidence.