Practice set — the Hijra

sources date the Hijra to 622, the calendar's starting year

that year was the conquest of Mecca, not the Hijra

that year began the revelation in Mecca

that was years after the Prophet's death

Yathrib's people invited him, and it became the polity's centre

Damascus was not part of the Hijra

Egypt was outside the Hijra's route

Baghdad did not yet exist

the move joined escaping harm with building a new polity

its aim was not trade but building the community

it was a religious-political migration, not a visit

proximity was not the reason; the invitation was

the document bound Medina's parties into one shared order

it was Medina's internal pact, not a trade treaty

it was written in the Prophet's time, not later

it covered all of Medina's parties, not just the migrants

the community moved from a besieged Meccan group to a civic structure

a state, a calendar and a new centre of learning began

they returned to Mecca eight years later at the conquest

Muslim numbers grew in Medina, not shrank

accounts reach us from Ibn Ishaq, al-Waqidi and al-Tabari

early sira accounts reach us

Arabic sira accounts predate orientalism by centuries

migrant and Ansar accounts both reach us

later caliphs chose the Hijra year as the Islamic era's start

the Prophet was born about 53 years before the Hijra

the conquest was eight years after the Hijra

it was a later administrative choice, not a Quranic command

the Muslims returned to Mecca in 630

he died in 632, two years after the conquest

that was in 1291, centuries later

the Crusades began in 1095

they were called Ansar for aiding the Prophet and the migrants

those were the migrants, not the Ansar

the Ansar were Medina's host community, not just an army

the Ansar were in Yathrib, not Syria

sources describe Aws-Khazraj rivalry and Jewish alliances

Yathrib was not under one ruler before the Hijra

Yathrib was an inland oasis, not a port

it had tribes, farming and trade before Islam