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. It is used to determine the proper days of Islamic holidays and rituals, such as the annual fasting and the annual season for the great pilgrimage. The Hijri calendar ( Arabic: ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, romanized: al-taqwīm al-hijrī), 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. For more information, please contact the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Arizona at 48.Islamic calendar stamp issued at King Khalid International Airport on 10 Rajab 1428 AH (24 July 2007 CE) Please Note: In some regions of the country and based on differences in scholarly opinions, actual dates are subject to local sightings of the new moon. This refers to the migration that the Prophet Muhammad made from Mecca to Medina in the year 622 C.E., which marks the beginning of the Islamic Calendar. For Shi’as the day is marked with mourning and often enactments of the tragic event.Īshura: J*After Hijrah (Hijrah means "migration" in Arabic.
For Shi’as, it marks the anniversary of the tragic death of the Prophet’s grandson, Husain at the hands of the Umayyad ruler, Yazid. For Sunnis, Ashura commemorates the exodus of Moses from Egypt, and is usually observed by completing an optional fast as practiced by the Prophet Muhammad. This event has a special significance in Islamic history as it marks the end of the period of persecution in Mecca and the transition to a recognized faith community in Medina.Īshura falls on the 10th of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. The Islamic calendar began with the migration – or Hijra – of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina. Islamic New Year marks the beginning of the new year on the Islamic calendar. The holiday is celebrated much like Eid ul-Fitr with the addition that Muslims sacrifice a lamb, goat or cow, and share the meat with friends, relatives, and the needy. The holiday commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, who was miraculously replaced by a lamb. This holiday takes place on the third day of Hajj and lasts for four days. Two to three million Muslims perform the pilgrimage annually. Hajj is required once in a Muslim’s lifetime if one is financially and physically able. The rituals of the Hajj also commemorate the trials of the Prophet Abraham and his family. The Hajj, or annual pilgrimage to Mecca, consists of several rituals which symbolize the essential concepts of the Islamic faith, such as devotion to God, brotherhood, and unity. This holiday commemorates the completion of Ramadan and lasts for three days during which Muslims celebrate with special prayers, sweets, presents for children and community festivities. Muslims believe that Ramadan is the month in which the first verses of Islam’s holy book, the Qur’an, were revealed by God through the Angel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad.Įid ul-Fitr (Festival of Breaking the Fast) Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar, during which Muslims fast daily from dawn to sunset as part of an effort towards self-purification and moral excellence. Muslim students may be embarrassed or shy to acknowledge these practices or holy days, which are not yet a part of the dominant American culture. Recognizing these holy days not only brings awareness of the diversity within the student population, but also instills pride in Muslim students who celebrate them. While American Muslims are from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds- including African-American, South Asian, Arab, African, Persian, European, Southeast Asian and Turkish-they may have additional ethnic or national holidays in addition to the religious holidays we describe below. There are an estimated 3-6 million Muslims in America. Because 12 synodic months are only 12 x 29.53= 354.36 days, the Islamic calendar is consistently shorter than a solar year, and therefore shifts approximately 11 days every year with respect to the Gregorian calendar. It contains 12 months that are based on the motion of the moon. The Islamic calendar (known as the Hijri calendar) is a purely lunar calendar.
0 kommentar(er)
