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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.
There are only four countries which have not adopted the Gregorian calendar for civil use: Ethiopia (Ethiopian calendar), Nepal (Vikram Samvat and Nepal Sambat), Iran (Solar Hijri calendar) [1] and Afghanistan (Lunar Hijri Calendar). [2] Thailand has adopted the Gregorian calendar for days and months, but uses its own era for years: the ...
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 first Hijri year (AH 1) was retrospectively considered to have begun on the Julian calendar date 15 July 622 (known as the 'astronomical' or 'Thursday' epoch, Julian day 1,948,439) or 16 July 622 (the ...
Whenever the remainder exceeds a half day (15 ⁄ 30 day), then a leap day is added to that year, reducing the remainder by one day. Thus at the end of the second year the remainder would be 22 ⁄ 30 day which is reduced to − 8 ⁄ 30 day by a leap day. Using this rule the leap years are year number 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26 and 29 ...
9th month of the Islamic calendar 1 Ramadan April 24, 2020 First day of Ramadan Public holiday in Malaysia: 14 Ramadan May 7, 2020 Garangao: 15 Ramadan May 8, 2020 Gargee'an: 17 Ramadan May 10, 2020 Day of Nuzul Al-Quran Public holiday in Malaysia, this date is also celebrated in Indonesia. See also 22 Ramadan for alternative date. 19 Ramadan ...
Pakistan holidays are celebrated according to the Islamic or local Pakistani calendars for religious and civil purposes, respectively. Religious holidays such as Eid are celebrated according to the Islamic calendar whereas other national holidays such as Labour Day, [1] Pakistan Day, Independence Day, and Quaid-e-Azam Day are celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar.
The Punjabi calendar is the one the rural (agrarian) population follows in Punjab, Pakistan. [6] [note 1] In Punjab though the solar calendar is generally followed, the lunar calendar used is purṇimānta, or calculated from the ending moment of the full moon: the beginning of the dark fortnight.
Date and time notation in Pakistan is based on the Gregorian and Islamic calendars. Pakistan has not officially adopted any time and date representation standard based on the ISO 8601 . Date