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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.
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.
In Iran, where the occasion is known as Eid-e-Fitr (Persian: عید فطر), several groups of experts representing the office of Ayatollah Khamenei go to the different zones of the country at the last days of Ramadan to determine the date of Eid. [39] Iranian Muslims take part in the Eid al-Fitr prayer and pay the Zakat al-Fitr. [40]
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. ...
31 March - Eid al-Fitr; 1 May - Labour Day; 7 June – Eid al-Adha; 27 June – Islamic New Year; 30 July – Throne Day; 14 August – Oued Ed-Dahab Day; 20 August – Revolution Day; 21 August – Youth Day; 5 September – The Prophet's Birthday; 6 November – Green March; 18 November – Independence Day
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Writers have traditionally written abbreviated dates according to their local custom, creating all-numeric equivalents to day–month formats such as "29 January 2025" (29/01/25, 29/01/2025, 29-01-2025 or 29.01.2025) and month–day formats such as "January 29, 2025" (01/29/25 or 01/29/2025). This can result in dates that are impossible to ...
March 29–31 – Eid al-Fitr; June 5 – Day of Arafat; June 6–8 – Eid al-Adha; June 26 – Islamic New Year; September 4 – The Prophet's Birthday; December 1 – Commemoration Day; December 2 – National Day