However, according to the Kama Sutra, fellatio is above all a characteristic of eunuchs ( or, according to other translations, of effeminate homosexuals or transwomen similar to the modern Hijra of India ), who use their mouths as a substitute for female genitalia.

Gender different peoples across the globe also formed minority rights movements – Hijra activists campaigned for recognition as a third sex in India and Travesti groups began to organize against police brutality across Latin America, while activists in the United States formed direct-confrontation groups such as Transexual Menace.

The Hijra of India may remove their penis as a part of their gender identity.

Similar phenomena are exemplified by some modern Indian communities of the Hijra, which are associated with a deity and with certain rituals and festivals – notably the devotees of Yellammadevi, or jogappas, who are not castrated and the Ali of southern India, of whom at least some are.

* Hijra ( South Asia ), an intersex or transgender subculture in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

* Collected Information About the Eunuchs of India Known as the Hijra

* Sangama – Leading Hijra Human Rights Organisation in India

In Islam, doves and the pigeon family in general are respected and favoured because they are believed to have assisted the final prophet of Islam, Muhammad, in distracting his enemies outside the cave of Thaw ' r in the great Hijra.

stands for " degraded " and the Arzal castes are further subdivided into Bhanar, Halalkhor, Hijra, Kasbi, Lalbegi, Maugta, Mehtar etc.

It is, in his own words " an Index of the books of all nations, Arabs and non-Arabs alike, which are extant in the Arabic language and script, on every branch of knowledge ; comprising information as to their compilers and the classes of their authors, together with the genealogies of those persons, the dates of their birth, the length of their lives, the times of their death, the places to which they belonged, their merits and their faults, since the beginning or every science that has been invented down to the present epoch: namely, the year 377 of the Hijra .".

The Muslim inhabitants of Medina who welcomed Muhammad and the other Meccan Muslims when they migrated to Medina from Mecca ( in an event known as the Hijra ) are also known as Anṣâr.

Therefore, the month of Ramadan is considered to be the most sacred month of the Islamic calendar, the recording of which began with the Hijra.

* The Works on Hijra in Indian Sub-Continent – Photographs ( Link to most recent archived version at Archive. org.

It is a Medinan sura ; most of it is believed to have been revealed during the first two years after the Hijra.

However, Fred Donner points out that the earliest historical writings about the origins of Islam first emerged in 60-70 AH, well within the first century of Hijra ( see also List of biographies of Muhammad ).

The first year was the year during which the emigration of the Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, known as the Hijra, occurred.

The first year was the Islamic year beginning in AD 622 during which the emigration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, known as the Hijra, occurred.

The Islamic calendar Hejira starts when Muhammad and his companions left Mecca for Medina in what is known as Hijra.

Muhammad and his Companions had earlier migrated from Mecca to Medina in what is known as the Hijra following years of persecution by the Meccans.

" The mosque built in the early 7th century at Kodungallur, ( AD 628 – Hijra 5 ) known as Cheraman Malik Masjid, still exists with its original structure and is said to be the oldest mosque in the sub-continent.

Hijra, a third gender found in the Indian subcontinent, may opt to undergo castration.

Hijra, a Hindi and Urdu term traditionally translated into English as " eunuch ", actually refers to what modern Westerners would call male-to-female transgender people and effeminate homosexuals ( although some of them reportedly identify as belonging to a third sex ).

'" Hijra social movements have campaigned for recognition as a third sex, and in 2005, Indian passport application forms were updated with three gender options: M, F, and E ( for male, female, and eunuch, respectively ).

Almost all of it also belongs to the third year of the Hijra with the possible exception of verse 61, which mentions Mubāhalah and therefore might have been revealed during the visit of the Najrān Christian deputation which was occurred in the 10th year of the Hijrah.

He followed it with the film Tamanna ( 1996 ), in which he played the role of a Hijra ( person of " third " gender, typically male transgender ) who raises a young, orphaned girl, played by Pooja Bhatt.

Indian photographer Dayanita Singh writes about her friendship with a Hijra, Mona Ahmed, and their two different societies ' beliefs about gender: " When I once asked her if she would like to go to Singapore for a sex change operation, she told me, ' You really do not understand.

* Eunuch MP takes seat – BBC world news-News on Shabnam Mausi, Hijra MP

* July 16 – Year one of the Islamic calendar begins, during which the Hijra occurs – Muhammad and his followers emigrate from Mecca to Medina in September.

The date recorded as 72 after the Hijra ( or 691 – 692 CE ), which historians view as the year of the Dome's construction.

It bears an inscription in Arabic with the Hijra year | Hegira date of 528 ( 1133 – 34 ).

A collection of Hadith tells that during the 9th – 10th year after Hijra an Arab Christian envoy from Najran ( currently in northern Yemen and partly in Saudi Arabia ) came to Muhammad to argue which of the two parties erred in its doctrine concerning Jesus ( Isa ).

* Member, National Hijra Committee, Govt of Pakistan ( 1978 – 83 ).

– ( 2 years before Hijra )

In the ten years between the Hijra ( the flight of the small Muslim community from Mecca to Medina ) to the death of Muhammad, Islam had grown by leaps and bounds.

In 622, Zayd, as part of the Hijra, emigrated to the oasis of Yathrib ( later called Medina ) with the rest of the small Muslim community.

The site was originally adjacent to Muhammad's house ; he settled there after his Hijra ( emigration ) to Medina in 622.

He resided in the mountains of Hakkari Kurds in the region north of Mosul and died at the age of 90 ( 557 Hijra or 1162 CE ), or according to others, he died in 555 Hijra ( 1160 CE ) in the hermitage which he had built himself there, where his descendents lived after his demise.

The Hijra ( hijrah ), also Hijrat or Hegira, is the migration or journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina between June 21st and July 2nd in 622 CE.

The rise of Islam began around the time the Muslims took flight in the Hijra, moving to Medina.

Each numbered year is designated either H for Hijra or AH for the Latin anno Hegirae ( in the year of the Hijra ), hence, Muslims typically call their calendar the Hijri calendar.

* 622: Year one of the Islamic calendar begins, during which the Hijra occurs — Muhammad and his followers emigrate from Mecca to Medina in September.

In fact, Year 1 of the Islamic calendar is based on the year of the emigration ( or Hijra ()) of Muhammad and his original followers ( Muhajirun ) from Mecca to the city of Medina in 622 AD / 1 AH.

Eventually the Banu Aus and the Banu Khazraj became hostile to each other and by the time of Muhammad's Hijra ( emigration ) to Medina in 622 AD / 1 AH, they had been fighting for 120 years and were the sworn enemies of each other.

In the ten years following the Hijra, Medina formed the base from which Muhammad and the Muslim army attacked and were attacked, and it was from here that he marched on Mecca, entering it without battle in 629 AD / 8 AH, all parties acquiescing to his leadership.

By 700 CE, or the 92nd lunar year after the Hijra, the Arab Muslims dominated North Africa.

If this understanding of these verses is correct that would render " the need " for a specific group of Jewish converts which did not accept the new Qiblah of Kaaba ( or rather the old, because this had been Qiblah before the Hijra ) to " fill in the gap " in story, if this is in fact what has been done.

According to Zawahiri, the EIJ was " different from the Takfir wal Hijra group as we do not consider people infidels because of their sins.

It is obligatory for hosts to pay Hijra in money, grain or other things.

At the second century of the Hijra, a new movement arose in the theological school of Basra, Iraq.