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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).
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 ...
The mean number of days per month in the 30-year cycle is 29.53056 days, or 29d 12h 44m. Six months of 29 days and six with 30 days, plus 11 days of the leap years. (29 days × 6 months + 30 days × 6 months) × 30 years + 11 leap days = 10,631 days and 10,631 / 360 = 29.53056 (360 is number of months in 30 years).
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.
The term Hijri calendar has more than one meaning. There are three calendars that have the Hijrah as their epoch. In most Islamic countries The Islamic calendar, the lunar Hijri calendar based on actual lunar observation. It does not take account of the seasons The Tabular Islamic calendar, a rule-based variation of the Islamic calendar. It has ...
Conversion of Hijri calendar for years 1343 to 1500 to the Gregorian calendar, with first days of al-Muharram (brown), Ramadan (light grey) and Shawwal (black) bolded, and Eid al-Adha dotted, by CMG Lee. In the SVG file, hover over a spot to show its dates and a line to show the Hijri month.
Lunar Hijri calendar (widely known as "the Islamic calendar", although there is more than one Islamic calendar), the lunar calendar used by the majority of Muslims Hijri year (Anno Hegirae, AH), the number of a year in the Hijri calendar; Solar Hijri calendar, a solar Islamic calendar used primarily in Iran and Afghanistan
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,