Muharram 2024 Date: Muharram - also known as Muharram-ul-Haram - is the first month in the Hijri calendar that marks the beginning of the new year for the Muslim community. Muharram is the first ...

many people are confused about how the Islamic calendar works. Also known as the Hijri calendar, the Islamic calendar is based on the cycles of the moon, unlike the more widely used Gregorian calendar ...

For Muslims, the Islamic calendar, also called the Hijri calendar, holds religious significance and was the main calendar of day-to-day life until the process of westernisation across the Islamic ...

Many public holidays in the UAE are decided by the moon-sighting committee as religious holidays follow the Islamic Hijri calendar. With Ramadan beginning on Saturday March 1 this year, that means we ...

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic, or Hijri, calendar. Muslims believe that God revealed the first verses of the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad through the Angel Gabriel during Ramadan.

This unique alignment between the Hijri (Islamic lunar) calendar and the Gregorian calendar happens only once every 33 years. Eng. Majed Abu Zahra, President of the Jeddah Astronomical Society ...