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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.
Generic synonyms: Lunar Calendar
Terms within: Islamic Calendar Month, Moharram, Muharram, Muharrum, Safar, Saphar, Rabi I, Rabi Ii, Jomada I, Jumada I, Jomada Ii, Jumada Ii, Rajab, Sha'ban, Shaaban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu Al-qadah, Dhu'l-qa'dah, Dhu Al-hijja, Dhu Al-hijjah, Dhu'l-hijja, Dhu'l-hijjah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muslim Calendar
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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