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mohajir, n. (a.) Islam.|ˈmɒhədʒɪə(r), mʊˈhɑːdʒɪə(r), məˈhɑːdʒɪə(r)|
Forms: 16–17 mohager, 18 mohadjer, 18– muhajir, 19– mohajir. Pl. mohajirs, muhajirin, muhajirun, etc.
[a. Arab. muhājir, f. hājara to emigrate: cf. hegira n.]
1. One of those who accompanied Muhammad in his emigration from Mecca to Medina in 622.
1697H. Prideaux tr. Life of Mahomet in True Nature of Imposture 133 The Mohagerins, that is, those who accompanied him in his Flight from Mecca, would have him carried thither to be buried in the place where he was Born. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. V. l. 227 The equal, though various, merit of the Moslems was distinguished by the names of Mohagerians and Ansars, the fugitives of Mecca and the auxiliaries of Medina. 1861J. M. Rodwell tr. Koran ix. 101 As for those who led the way, the first of the Mohadjers and the Ansars,..God is well pleased with them. 1983M. Cook Muhammad ii. 21 The Medinese ansar had an abiding suspicion of the Meccan muhajirun and their kinship with Muhammad; they readily flared up at the suggestion that the Meccans were taking over.
2. One who emigrates from a country which is, or has become, ruled by non-Muslims; spec. one of the Muslim emigrants who left India for Pakistan at the time of the Indian Partition in 1947, or a descendant of these people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1930Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Aug. 635/1 Except for a few devoted muhajirs, whose loyalty to Islam had prompted them to follow the retreating horse tails of their defeated Caliph, Turkey had lost, with her European provinces her European non-Turkish Moslems..as well as her Christian Albanians, Greeks, Serbs and Bulgars. 1964K. S. Ahmad Geogr. Pakistan xviii. 146 The refugees, or muhajirs, have also brought their own culture from various parts of India. 1979A. Rumbold Watershed in India xii. 209 Although the hijrat was orderly, it prompted much..excitement in Peshawar..and among the Afridis, through whose territory the caravans of ‘muhajarin’ passed. 1983S. Rushdie Shame xii. 254 The pale skin of her mohajir ancestry burned and toughened by the sun, bearing like battle scars the lacerations of bushes, animals, her own itch-scratching nails. 1986Times 20 Aug. 6 Like many interior Sind towns the population is largely Urdu-speaking, and not indigenous Sindhi. They are Mohajirs, those immigrants (or their children) who crossed into Pakistan at the time of Partition in 1947. 1992Economist 12 Sept. 79/3 When Islamabad ‘stole’ the capital, the mohajirs' political disillusion with Pakistan began. |