Muhajir

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Muhajir or Mohajir (Arabic: مهاجر) is an Arabic word meaning refugee or immigrant or emigrant. The Islamic calendar Hejira starts when Muhammad and his companions left Mecca for Madina. They were called Muhajirun. The Arabic root word for immigration and emigration is Hijrat.

Several Muslim refugee groups have been termed as Muhajir or Mohajirs over the centuries.

• Muhammad and his companions escaped from Mecca to Madina
• Muhajir Khwarezm, the Muslim refugees that escaped Genghiz Khan's Mongol invasion of Muslim lands in 13th century and they settled in other Muslim lands not touched by this calamity. Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi fled Afghanistan and settled in Anatolia to escape the Mongol army.
• Muhajir Crimean, the Muslim refugees of Crimean ancestry that settled in Ottoman Empire after the Russian Empire conquered Muslim Crimean Khanate.
• Muhajir (Caucasus), the Muslim population of Caucasus resettled to Ottoman Empire and Middle East after the Caucasian War.
• Palestinian refugees are Palestinians that were displaced by UN plan to partition Palestine in 1948.
• Muhajir (Turkey), the Muslims of Balkan ancestry that settled in Turkey after the collapse of Ottoman Empire.
• Muhajir Urdu, the Urdu speaking Muslims refugees from India who settled in Pakistan after independence in 1947.
• Muhajir Afghan, the Muslim refugees from Afghanistan that escaped the Soviet occupation in 1979 and later the Taliban atrocities.
• Muhajir (Albania), the Albanian speaking Muslims who became refugees in Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Greece after the collapse of Yugoslavia.