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What Is The Islamic Calendar And What It Is Used For?

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    The Islamic calendar is also called the hijri calendar. The Muslim use these calendars for the dates and event happen in their countries and all the work are done according to the Muslim calendar. So the Muslim celebrates their holidays and rituals according to the Islamic calendars. An Islamic calendar has 12 months which are called the holy months of the Islamic calendar. A year according to the Islamic calendars has 365 days in a year. The Muslim lunar year is shorter than the solar year. The reason for the Islamic calendar is also called as the Hijri year because the first year of the month of this calendar is the Hijri month so this is the reason this is also called the Islamic year.

    In the past the Islamic Calendar was also based on the lunar year. Many people say that in the past the Islamic year was of 11 month and then later on a new month was added to this calendar which is the month of the hajj as a special month and now the calendar has 12 months years which are used in the Muslim countries. So this is all about the Muslim calendar and its use in the Muslim countries of the world.
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    answered 3 years ago

    Great article!. I was doing a term homework and this information about the hijri calender summarized everything perfectly. To convert between Hijri and Gregorian calender dates it might be useful to also provide a Gregorian-Hijri Calender tool. Something like here maybe? http://www.easyunitconverter.com/calender-conversion/calender-converte
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    commented 2 years ago

    This greatly summarizes the hijri calender usage. Thank you! This helps with my term homework a lot! Also, you may want to include a tool maybe for people to be able to convert between hijri and Gregorian calender? Something like http://www.easyunitconverter.com/calender-conversion/calender-converte
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