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  2. Eid al-Ghadir - Wikipedia

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    2024 date. 25 June (Iran) [1] Eid al-Ghadir (Arabic: عید الغدیر, romanized: ʿīd al-ghadīr, lit. 'feast of the pond') is a commemorative holiday, and is considered to be among the most significant holidays of Shi'ite Muslims and almost all Sufi sects. [2] The Eid is held on 18 Dhul-Hijjah at the time when the Islamic prophet Muhammad ...

  3. Islamic holidays - Wikipedia

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    Islam. There are two main holidays in Islam that are celebrated by Muslims worldwide: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. The timing of both holidays are set by the lunar Islamic calendar, which is based upon the cycle of the moon, and so is different from the more common, European, solar-based Gregorian calendar. Every year, the Gregorian dates of ...

  4. Eid al-Fitr - Wikipedia

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    Although the date of Eid al-Fitr is always the same in the Islamic calendar, the date in the Gregorian calendar falls approximately 11 days earlier each successive year, since the Islamic calendar is lunar and the Gregorian calendar is solar. Hence if the Eid falls in the first ten days of a Gregorian calendar year, there will be a second Eid ...

  5. When Is Eid al-Adha 2023? Why the Date Changes Every Year - AOL

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    Over the next three years, Eid al-Adha is expected to take place on June 17, 2024, June 7, 2025, and May 26, 2026. All dates are approximate and subject to sighting of the crescent moon for Dhul ...

  6. Eid al-Adha - Wikipedia

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    Conversion of Hijri years 1343 to 1500 to the Gregorian calendar, with first days of al-Muharram (brown), Ramadan (grey) and Shawwal (black) bolded, and Eid al-Adha dotted – in the SVG file, hover over a spot to show its dates and a line to show the month. While Eid al-Adha is always on the same day of the Islamic calendar, the date on the ...

  7. Islamic calendar - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Ides of March - Wikipedia

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    The Death of Julius Caesar (1806) by Vincenzo Camuccini. The Ides of March (/ aɪdz /; Latin: Idus Martiae, Medieval Latin: Idus Martii) [1] is the day on the Roman calendar marked as the Idus, roughly the midpoint of a month, of Martius, corresponding to 15 March on the Gregorian calendar. It was marked by several major religious observances.

  9. Day of Arafah - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Day of Arafah (Arabic: يوم عرفة, romanized: Yawm 'Arafah) is an Islamic holiday that falls on the ninth day of Dhu al-Hijjah of the lunar Islamic Calendar. [4] It is the second day of the Hajj pilgrimage and is followed by the holiday of Eid al-Adha. [5] At dawn of this day, Muslim pilgrims will make their way from Mina to a ...