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  2. Hijri year - Wikipedia

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    The Hijri year (Arabic: سنة هجرية, romanized: sanat hijriyya) or era (Arabic: التقويم الهجري, romanized: at-taqwīm al-hijrī) is the era used in the Islamic lunar calendar. It begins its count from the Islamic New Year in which Muhammad and his followers migrated from Mecca to Yathrib (now Medina ) in 622 CE.

  3. Tabular Islamic calendar - Wikipedia

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    It was developed by early Muslim astronomers of the second hijra century (the 8th century of the Common Era) to provide a predictable time base for calculating the positions of the moon, sun, and planets. It is now used by historians to convert an Islamic date into a Western calendar when no other information (like the day of the week) is ...

  4. Islamic calendar - Wikipedia

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    Islamic calendar stamp issued at King Khalid International Airport on 10 Rajab 1428 AH (24 July 2007 CE). The Hijri calendar (Arabic: ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, romanized: al-taqwīm al-hijrī), or Arabic calendar, also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.

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  6. Solar Hijri calendar - Wikipedia

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    The change lasted until 27 August 1978 CE, [e] at which time the epoch was reverted back to the Hijrah and the original year numbering was reinstated. [1] The reversion was announced on the first day of the government of Prime Minister Jafar Sharif-Emami , and referenced the fact that that 1925 law that introduced the Solar Hijri calendar was ...

  7. Iranian calendars - Wikipedia

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    This change was reversed slightly more than two years later, on September 2, 1978 (11 Shahrivar 2537, which became 11 Shahrivar 1357), in the wake of civil unrest preceding the Iranian revolution, and the calendar reverted to Solar Hijri. [8] [9] Correspondence of Solar Hijri and Gregorian calendars (Solar Hijri leap years are marked *): [10]

  8. List of Islamic years - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Hijri years (Latin: anno Hegirae or AH) with the corresponding common era years where applicable. For Hijri years since 1297 AH (1879/1881 CE), the Gregorian date of 1 Muharram , the first day of the year in the Islamic calendar , is given.

  9. Rumi calendar - Wikipedia

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    In the Islamic state of the Ottoman Empire, the religious Islamic calendar (a lunar calendar) was in use.In this calendar, months coincide with lunar phases.Because a "lunar year" (the combined duration of twelve lunar phases) is shorter than the solar year, the seasons cycle through the lunar months as the solar years pass.