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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), 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.
The Islamic Republic government changed the original date to coincide with the assassination of Morteza Motahhari on 1 May 1979. May 1: May 2: May 3 14 Khordad: Anniversary of the Death of Khomeini: Public holiday in Iran: June 3: June 4: June 5 15 Khordad: Anniversary Revolt of Khordad 15: Public holiday in Iran: June 4: June 5: June 6 13 Tir ...
10 Rajab March 7, 2020 Shia day of Celebration: Birth of Imam Mohammad Taqi, 195 A.H. 13 Rajab: March 10, 2020 Shia day of Celebration: Birth of Imam Ali Public holiday in Iran: 13 Rajab March 8, 2020 Father's Day in Iran, Mauritania Somalia, and Sudan: 15 Rajab March 10, 2020 Shia day of Mourning: Martyrdom of Imam Jafar-as-Sadiq: 18 Rajab ...
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.
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All religious duties, such as prayer, fasting in the month of Ramadan, and pilgrimage, and the dates of significant events, such as celebration of holy nights and festivals, are calculated according to the Islamic calendar. While some Islamic organizations prefer determining the new month (and hence the new year) by local sightings of the moon ...
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 ...