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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.
Though less accurate than the tabular calendars based on a 30-year cycle, it was popular due to the fact that in each cycle the weekdays fall on the same calendar date. In other words, the 8-year cycle is exactly 405 weeks long, resulting in a mean of exactly 4.21875 weeks per month.
The Hijri era is calculated according to the Islamic lunar calendar, whose epoch (first year) is the year of Muhammad's Hijrah, and begins on the first day of the month of Muharram (equivalent to the Julian calendar date of July 16, 622 CE). [2] [b] The date of the Hijrah itself did not form the Islamic New Year.
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.
The Solar Hijri year begins about 21 March of each Gregorian year and ends about 20 March of the next year. [c] To convert the Solar Hijri year into the equivalent Gregorian year add 621 or 622 years to the Solar Hijri year depending on whether the Solar Hijri year has or has not begun.
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]
The term Hijri calendar has more than one meaning. There are three calendars that have the Hijrah as their epoch. In most Islamic countries The Islamic calendar, the ...
Hijri date 1446 AH Islamic New Year: 1 Muḥarram 7 July 2024 Ashura: 10 Muḥarram 17 July 2024 Arbaʽeen [a] 20 or 21 Ṣafar [b] 26 Aug. 2024 Akhiri Chahar Shambah [c] Last Wednesday of Ṣafar Eid-e-Shuja' (Eid-e-Zahra) [d] 9 Rabī‘ al-Awwal Mawlid an-Nabī (Birthday of Muhammad) [e] 12 Rabī‘ al-Awwal 15 Sep. 2024 Baptism of Muhammad [f]