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The Islamic calendar is a lunar one, where each month begins when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. The Islamic year consists of 12 lunar cycles, and consequently it is 10 to 11 days shorter than the solar year, and as it contains no intercalation, [a] Ramadan migrates throughout the seasons.
Occurring during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, [10] it is a commemoration of Muhammad's first revelation, [11] the annual observance of Ramadan is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of Islam [12] and lasts twenty-nine to thirty days, from one sighting of the crescent moon to the next. [13] [14]
Another theory suggested, "lebaran" is derived from Betawi, lebar which means "wide and broad", so the celebration means to broaden or widen one's heart feeling after fasting ritual of Ramadhan. Madurese people have also a similar word called lober to describe the completion of Ramadhan fast. It is also possible the word 'lebaran' derived from ...
Sarim al-Din Ibrahim I (died 1384) was Beg of Ramadan in south-central Anatolia from c. 1354 until his death. Following the death of his father Ramadan, Ibrahim came to Damascus to do homage to the Mamluk Sultan who acknowledged him as his father's successor.
[10] The opposition called him a hypocrite over his support for the uprising in Egypt, which he had written was Islamic, only to condemn protests as un-Islamic when they broke out in Syria itself. Al-Bouti did criticise President Assad in public, shortly after demonstrations had started, for a government decision to fire hundreds of female ...