Definition of Mohammedan calendar

1. Noun. The lunar calendar used by Muslims; dates from 622 AD (the year of the Hegira); the beginning of the Muslim year retrogresses through the solar year completing the cycle every 32 years.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Mohammedan Calendar

Mogen clamp
Moghul
Moghuls
Mogilev
Mogor
Mogors
Mogul
Mogul empire
Mohammad
Mohammadanism
Mohammed
Mohammed Ali
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
Mohammedan
Mohammedan calendar (current term)
Mohammedanism
Mohammedanize
Mohammedanized
Mohammedanizing
Mohammedans
Mohammedism
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Moharram
Mohave
Mohave Desert
Mohawk
Mohawk River
Mohawks
Mohel

Literary usage of Mohammedan calendar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life in the Moslem East by Pierre Ponafidine (1911)
"... and Hadji —The Mohammedan calendar—Lunar and Solar Years—Names of Lunar Months and Their Derivations—Formula for Transposing Moslem and Christian ..."

2. The American Year-book and National Register for 1869: Astronomical by David Nelson Camp (1869)
"Mohammedan calendar FOR 1869. The year 1285, of 354 days, began April 24th, 1868, and ends April 12th, 1869. The year 1286, of 355 days, begins April 13th, ..."

3. A Practical Malay Grammar by William Girdlestone Shellabear (1904)
"The Mohammedan calendar. . The Mohammedan era (tarikh) dates from the "migration" (hijrah), or departure of Mohammed from Mecca to Medina, which took place ..."

4. The Crusade of Richard I. 1189-92: Extracts from the Itinerarium Ricardi by Thomas Andrew Archer (1900)
"88) were used like net-work, to deaden the shock of the great stones hurled from mangonels or stone bows. NOTE E.—THE Mohammedan calendar. ..."

5. The approaching end of the age viewed in the light of history, prophecy and by Henry Grattan Guinness (1882)
"An inspection of the subjoined Mohammedan calendar for the present year (1879) ... It will be observed that in the Mohammedan calendar, the commencement of ..."

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