Definition of Muslim 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 Muslim Calendar

Muse
Muses
Musgoi
Musgu
Musial
Muskhogean
Muskhogean language
Muskogean
Muskogean language
Muskogee
Muskogees
Muskoka
Muskoka chair
Muslim
Muslim Ummah
Muslim calendar (current term)
Muslimah
Muslimise
Muslimism
Muslimize
Muslimized
Muslimizes
Muslimizing
Muslimphobia
Muslims
Musophaga
Musophagidae
Musorgsky
Muspell
Mussalman

Literary usage of Muslim calendar

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

1. The Races of Man: And Their Geographical Distribution by Charles Pickering, John Charles Hall (1854)
"... besides the usual Muslim calendar, have one of their own. Their new year commenced, in 1844, on the 29th of August, or, more precisely, ..."

2. Lunar Science: Ancient and Modern by Timothy Harley (1886)
"... besides the usual Muslim calendar, have one of their own. ... Rejeb, and Ramadan,' appellations which are well known in the Muslim calendar. ..."

3. A Universal Calendar by Michael J. Dubbaneh (1896)
"... corresponds to whicli day of the muslim calendar, and falls on which v. day ? On looking in the general index, under the rubric IL Calendar , for t be ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"In spite of their misapprehensions, it is possible to discern the fact that the great festivals of the Muslim calendar are adaptations of pagan feasts, ..."

5. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"Some devout Shi'a, wishing to avoid confrontation, have tried to select other significant days in the Muslim calendar for their pilgrimage. ..."

6. A Ride in Egypt, from Sioot to Luxor in 1879: From Sioot to Luxor in 1879 by William John Loftie (1879)
"The Muslim calendar is wholly different, although it would seem that many Muslim festivals are of Coptic origin. The lunar system is in use, an attempt made ..."

7. Adventure Guide to Trinidad & Tobago by Kathleen O'Donnell, S Harry Pefkaros (2000)
"... month of the Muslim calendar, 10 days after the new moon. On the last of the three days of this not very solemn occasion, paraders march through the ..."

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