- Yathrib
- the old name of the town before the Prophet's migration there in 622 made it his city
- the migrants
- the Meccans who left their homes and wealth to migrate with the Prophet to Medina
- the Ansar
- the people of Yathrib of Aws and Khazraj who sheltered the emigrants in their homes
- the Constitution of Medina
- the charter that set the rights of Medina's Muslims, Jews and remaining tribes on one footing
- the Prophet's mosque
- the first mosque the Muslims built in Medina, still the community's heart and pulpit today
- the Hijri calendar
- the timekeeping system counted from the Hijra by which Muslims still date their years today
- the Hijra
- the journey that changed history — the Prophet's leaving Mecca for Yathrib and the first Muslim polity
- the Prophet
- Muhammad, God's messenger, who led the migration and founded the heart of an entire ummah
- Medina's Jews
- the Jewish groups of Yathrib whose relations with Muslims the charter set before affairs changed
- Aws and Khazraj
- the two feuding Arab tribes of Yathrib that became the call's backbone after the Hijra
- the companions
- the Prophet's close followers in Mecca and Medina who carried the call to the world
- the conquest of Mecca
- the Prophet's victorious return to Mecca in 630, entering it peacefully and cleansing the Kaaba
