What is islamic calendar?

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What is islamic calendar?

Answer 1

is a lunar calendar used to date events in many predominantly Muslim countries, and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which to celebrate Islamic holy days. It is a lunar calendar having 12 lunar months in a year of about 354 days. Because this lunar year is about 11 days shorter than the solar year, Islamic holy days, although celebrated on fixed dates in their own calendar, usually shift 11 days earlier each successive solar year, such as a year of the Gregorian calendar. Islamic years are also called Hijra years because the first year was the year during which the Hijra occurred—Islamic prophet Muhammad's emigration from Mecca to Medina. Thus each numbered year is designated either H or AH, the latter being the initials of the Latin anno Hegirae (in the year of the Hijra).[1]

Answer 2

Islamic calender is the perfect calender.

Answer 3

this year it's 1382

Answer 4

The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar (also called the Hijri calendar) is a lunar calendar used to date events in many predominantly Muslim countries, and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which to celebrate Islamic holy days. It is a lunar calendar having 12 lunar months in a year of about 354 days. Because this lunar year is about 11 days shorter than the solar year.

Islamic years are also called Hijra years because the first year was the year during which the Hijra occurred—Islamic prophet Muhammad's emigration from Mecca to Medina.

The Islamic months are named as follows:

Muharram محرّم (or Muḥarram al Ḥaram)

Safar صفر (or Ṣafar al Muzaffar)

Rabi' al-awwal (Rabī' I) ربيع الأول

Rabi' al-thani (or Rabī' al Thānī, or Rabī' al-Akhir) (Rabī' II) ربيع الآخر أو ربيع الثاني

Jumada al-awwal (Jumādā I) جمادى الاولى

Jumada al-thani (or Jumādā al-akhir) (Jumādā II) جمادى الآخر أو جمادى الثاني

Rajab رجب (or Rajab al Murajab)

Sha'aban شعبان (or Sha'abān al Moazam)

Ramadan رمضان (or Ramdān, long form: Ramaḍān al Mubarak)

Shawwal شوّال (or Shawwal al Mukarram)

Dhu al-Qi'dah ذو القعدة

Dhu al-Hijjah ذو الحجة

For a very rough conversion, multiply the Islamic year number by 0.97, and then add 622 to get the Gregorian year number. An Islamic year will be entirely within a Gregorian year of the same number in the year 20874. The Islamic calendar year of 1429 occurs entirely within the Gregorian calendar year of 2008. Such years occur once every 33 or 34 Islamic years (32 or 33 Gregorian years)......It's a purely lunar calendar.

Answer 5

Islamic calendar has 12 months

The Islamic months are named as follows

   1. Muharram

   2. Safar

   3. Rabi' al-awwal

   4. Rabi' al-thani

   5. Jumada al-awwal

   6. Jumada al-thani  

   7. Rajab

   8. Sha'aban

   9. Ramadan

  10. Shawwal

  11. Dhu al-Qi'dah

  12. Dhu al-Hijjah  

Answer 6

lol the first answer is correct ive studed islam in 9th grade

Answer 7

I agree with sister Maria

Jzakillahu khara,  just I want add some thing that the Islamic year began from the Hijrah ( emigration ) of our beloved prophet Mohammas  ÃƒÂ˜Ã‚µÃ™Â„ى الله عليه وسلم

At 13th year of his dawa from Makkah to Madinah.  Hazrat Umar (R ) started the new Islamic calendar from that big Islamic Incidence. which starting  from Muharram and finishing in Zul Hajj.

All the months in Islamic calendar are between 29-30 days. According to the moon

Name of the months r  mentioned in sister Maria's A

Wallahu Aalam