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There are two main holidays in Islam that are celebrated by Muslims worldwide: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. The timing of both holidays are set by the lunar Islamic calendar, which is based upon the cycle of the moon, and so is different from the more common, European, solar-based Gregorian calendar. Every year, the Gregorian dates of the ...
Public holiday in Iran 28 Rajab March 23, 2020 Shia day of Mourning: Imam Husayn ibn ‘Alī started his journey to Karbalā from Medina, 60 A.H. Sha'ban: March 25 - April 23, 2020 8th Month of the Islamic calendar 15 Sha'ban April 8, 2020 Birth of Imam Mahdi/Mid-Sha'ban: Public holiday in Iran, Gargee'an: Ramadan (calendar month) (also called ...
List of observances set by the Islamic calendar This page was last edited on 8 August 2024, at 09:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The second major festival in Islam, Eid al-Adha, is expected to take place in June. Because Muslim holidays and festivals are dictated by the Islamic calendar, which is a 12-month lunar calendar ...
The Muslim population of Trinidad and Tobago popularly eat sawine/vermicelli, a sweet dessert, to mark the celebration, [145] but the feast also consists of curries, rotis, and chicken and curry goat. [146] Eid al-Fitr is a public holiday in Trinidad and Tobago, having been declared in 1962. [147]
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[49] [a] Each year, Eid al-Adha (like other Islamic holidays) falls on one of about two to four Gregorian dates in parts of the world, because the boundary of crescent visibility is different from the International Date Line. [50] The following list shows the official dates of Eid al-Adha for Saudi Arabia as announced by the Supreme Judicial ...