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30 March – 1 April – Eid al-Fitr; 28 April – Victory Day; 1 May – Labour Day; 5 June – Arafat Day; 6–8 June – Eid al-Adha; 5–6 July – Ashura; 15 August – Anniversary of return to the power; 19 August – Afghan Independence Day; 31 August – American Withdrawal Day; 4 September – Milad un-Nabi
Writers have traditionally written abbreviated dates according to their local custom, creating all-numeric equivalents to day–month formats such as "4 February 2025" (04/02/25, 04/02/2025, 04-02-2025 or 04.02.2025) and month–day formats such as "February 4, 2025" (02/04/25 or 02/04/2025). This can result in dates that are impossible to ...
Both Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha follow a period of 10 holy days or nights: the last 10 nights of Ramadan for Eid al-Fitr, and the first 10 days of Dhu al-Hijjah for Eid al-Adha. The Night of Power (Arabic: لیلة القدر, romanized : Laylat al-Qadr), one of the last 10 nights of Ramadan, is the holiest night of the year.
29–31 March - Eid al-Fitr; 20 April - Gregorian Easter; 1 May – Labour Day; 25 May – Independence Day; 6–9 June – Eid al-Adha; 26 June – Islamic New Year; 4 September – The Prophet's Birthday; 25 December - Christmas Day
Although the date of Eid al-Fitr is always the same in the Islamic calendar, the date in the Gregorian calendar falls approximately 11 days earlier each successive year, since the Islamic calendar is lunar and the Gregorian calendar is solar. Hence if the Eid falls in the first ten days of a Gregorian calendar year, there will be a second Eid ...
But on the Islamic calendar, the date for Eid al Fitr is always consistent. In a lunar Islamic month, each month has either 29 or 30 days, though scientifically each month has a mean period of 29. ...
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.
2 January – Opposition figure and activist Salman Al Khalidi is extradited to Kuwait to begin prison sentence after fleeing on being convicted on 11 charges. [1]Abdullah Warte, official spokesperson of the Iraqi Kurdistan-based Islamic Movement of Kurdistan (IMK) political party, announces a proposal to establish an office in Damascus, becoming the first Kurdish and Iraqi political party to ...