2022 CE

Year 2022 CEwas a common year in the Gregorian calendar that started on Saturday, Jumada I 27, 1443 AH, and ended on Saturday, Jumada II 7, 1444 AH (in the lunar Hijri calendar).

Events

• March 4 – Sixty people were killed, and nearly two hundred others were injured in an explosion that occurred in a mosque in the city of Peshawar, northwest Pakistan. (30 Rajab 1443 AH)
• March 13 – Beheading of eighty-one people, including forty-one Shi'a from Qatif, by Saudi Arabia. (Sha'ban 9 1443 AH)
• August 12 – Attack on Salman Rushdie, who was sentenced by Imam Khomeini to apostasy because of the book The Satanic Verses in New York. (14 Muharram 1444 AH)
• October 18 – Beginning of the Umana' al-Rasul conference, commemorating Sayyid Muhammad Mahdi al-Khirsan. (22 Rabi' I 1444 AH)

Deaths

• February 1 – Lutf Allah Safi Gulpayigani, a Shi'a marja' and a teacher of advanced courses of jurisprudence and principles of jurisprudence in Qom. (29 Jumada II 1443 AH)
• March 15 – Sayyid Muhammad Ali Alawi Gurgani, a Shi'a marja' and a teacher of advanced courses of jurisprudence and principles of jurisprudence in Qom. (12 Sha'ban 1443 AH)
• May 5 – Sayyid Muhammad Hasan Tarhini al-'Amili, a Lebanese Shiite jurist and the author of al-Zubda l-fiqhiyya Rawda al-bahiyya. (Shawwal 1 1443 AH)
• May 16 – Sayyid Abd Allah Fatimi Niya, a Shi'a cleric, master of Islamic ethics, famous orator, and bibliographer. (14 Shawwal 1443 AH)
• December 16 – Sayyid Muhammad Sadiq Al-Ruhani, a Shi'a marja' and a teacher of advanced courses of jurisprudence and principles of jurisprudence in Qom. He wrote the book Fiqh Al-Sadiq in forty-one volumes (21 Jumada I 1444 AH)