Islamic calendar

Also known as Arabic calendar, Muslim calendar, lunar Hijri calendar, Arab calendar, Hijri calendar

lunar calendar used by Muslims to determine religious observances

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The Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar used by Muslims around the world to determine when religious observances and holidays, such as Ramadan and Eid, should take place. Because it's based on the moon's cycles rather than the sun's, the Islamic calendar is shorter than the solar calendar used in most countries, which is why Islamic holidays occur on different dates each year.

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Instance of: lunar calendar
Part of: Islamic culture
Has part: Dhu'l-Hijja
Image: Kalender asapon.jpg
Significant event: Hijra

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The Hijri calendar (Arabic: ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, romanized: al-taqwīm al-hijrī), also known in English as the Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to determine the dates of Islamic holidays and rituals, such as the annual fasting and the annual season for the great pilgrimage. In almost all countries where the predominant religion is Islam, the civil calendar is the Gregorian calendar, with Syriac month-names used in the Levant and Mesopotamia (Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine), but the religious calendar is the Hijri one.

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