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'''The lunar hijri calendar''' is a calendar based on the cycles of the Moon’s phases and is used, among other things, to organize Islamic rituals. This calendar begins its count from 622 CE when [[Prophet Muhammad (s)]] emigrated from [[Mecca]] to [[Medina]]. This year was reportedly chosen as the first year of the [[Muslim]] calendar during the [[caliphate]] of [[Umar]] with the suggestion of [[Imam Ali (a)]]. | '''The lunar hijri calendar''' is a calendar based on the cycles of the Moon’s phases and is used, among other things, to organize Islamic rituals. This calendar begins its count from 622 CE when [[Prophet Muhammad (s)]] emigrated from [[Mecca]] to [[Medina]]. This year was reportedly chosen as the first year of the [[Muslim]] calendar during the [[caliphate]] of [[Umar]] with the suggestion of [[Imam Ali (a)]]. | ||
A lunar hijri year has 354 or 355 days; it is ten or eleven days shorter than a solar hijri year. The first month in this calendar is [[Muharram]] and the last month is [[Dhu l-Hijja]]. According to some [[hadiths]], the [[month of Ramadan]] is the first month of the hijri lunar year, and thus religious practices and rituals begin, in some prayer books, with the rites of the month of Ramadan and end with the practices of the [[month of Shaʿban]]. [[Al-Sayyid b. Tawus]], a renowned [[ | A lunar hijri year has 354 or 355 days; it is ten or eleven days shorter than a solar hijri year. The first month in this calendar is [[Muharram]] and the last month is [[Dhu l-Hijja]]. According to some [[hadiths]], the [[month of Ramadan]] is the first month of the hijri lunar year, and thus religious practices and rituals begin, in some prayer books, with the rites of the month of Ramadan and end with the practices of the [[month of Shaʿban]]. [[Al-Sayyid b. Tawus]], a renowned [[Shia]] scholar in the seventh/thirteenth century, held that the month of Ramadan was probably the beginning of the religious calendar and the month of Muharram was the beginning of the ordinary calendar. | ||
The month in a lunar hijri year are in the following order: [[Muharram]], [[Safar]], [[Rabiʿ I]], [[Rabiʿ II]], [[Jumada I]], [[Jumada II]], [[Rajab]], [[Shaʿban]], [[Ramadan]], [[Shawwal]], [[Dhu l-Qaʿda]], and [[Dhu l-Hijja]]. | The month in a lunar hijri year are in the following order: [[Muharram]], [[Safar]], [[Rabiʿ I]], [[Rabiʿ II]], [[Jumada I]], [[Jumada II]], [[Rajab]], [[Shaʿban]], [[Ramadan]], [[Shawwal]], [[Dhu l-Qaʿda]], and [[Dhu l-Hijja]]. | ||
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