This article is about the Hijri calendar based on lunar observation. For the solar calendar whose first year is fixed to the Hijra, see Solar Hijri calendar. For the rule-based Hijri calendar, see Tabular Islamic calendar.
"Crescent moon of Islam" redirects here. For the symbol, see Star and crescent.
Today
Saturday
April 27
2024
18 Shawwal
1445 AH
Using tabular calculations
v
t
e
Part of a series on
Islam
Beliefs
Oneness of God
Angels
Revealed Books
Prophets
Day of Resurrection
Predestination
Practices
Profession of Faith
Prayer
Almsgiving
Fasting
Pilgrimage
Texts
Foundations
Quran
Sunnah (Hadith, Sirah)
Tafsir (exegesis)
Aqidah (creed)
Qisas al-Anbiya ("Stories of the Prophets")
Mathnawi (Poems)
Fiqh (jurisprudence)
Sharia (law)
History
Timeline
Muhammad
Ahl al-Bayt
Sahabah
Rashidun
Caliphate
Imamate
Medieval Islamic science
Spread of Islam
Succession to Muhammad
Culture and society
Academics
Animals
Art
Association football
Calendar
Children
Circumcision
Demographics
Diaspora
Denominations
Sunni
Shia
Economics
Education
Ethics
Exorcism
Feminism
Festivals
Finance
Madrasa
Moral teachings
Mosque
Music
Mysticism
Philosophy
Poetry
Politics
Proselytizing
Science
Sexuality
LGBT
Slavery
Social welfare
Women
Related topics
Apostasy
Criticism
Muhammad
Quran
Hadith
Arabic language
Other religions
Islamism
Violence
terrorism
war
Islamophobia
Jihad
Jihadism
Laws of war
Glossary
Islam portal
v
t
e
Islamic calendar stamp issued at King Khalid International Airport on 10 Rajab 1428 AH (24 July 2007 CE)
The Hijri calendar (Arabic: ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, romanized: al-taqwīm al-hijrī), or Arabic calendar also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to determine the proper days of Islamic holidays and rituals, such as the annual fasting and the annual season for the great pilgrimage. In almost all countries where the predominant religion is Islam, the civil calendar is the Gregorian calendar, with Syriac month-names used in the Levant and Mesopotamia (Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine) but the religious calendar is the Hijri one.
This calendar enumerates the Hijri era, whose epoch was established as the Islamic New Year in 622 CE.[1] During that year, Muhammad and his followers migrated from Mecca to Medina and established the first Muslim community (ummah), an event commemorated as the Hijrah. In the West, dates in this era are usually denoted AH (Latin: Anno Hegirae, lit. 'In the year of the Hijrah').[a] In Muslim countries, it is also sometimes denoted as H[2] from its Arabic form (سَنَة هِجْرِيَّة, abbreviated ھ). In English, years prior to the Hijra are denoted as BH ("Before the Hijra").[3]
Since 19 July 2023 CE, the current Islamic year is 1445 AH. In the Gregorian calendar reckoning, 1445 AH runs from 19 July 2023 to approximately 7 July 2024.[4][5][b]
^Paul Lunde. "The Beginning of Hijri calendar". Saudi Aramco World Magazine. No. November/December 2005. Archived from the original on 1 January 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
^Watt, W. Montgomery. "Hidjra". In P.J. Bearman; Th. Bianquis; C.E. Bosworth; E. van Donzel; W.P. Heinrichs (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam Online. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 1573-3912.
^Hijri Calendar, Government of Sharjah, archived from the original on 2 February 2017, retrieved 21 January 2017.
^"Important dates in Islamic Calendar in the Year 2023". Al-Habib.info. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
^"Important dates in Islamic Calendar in the Year 2024". Al-Habib.info. Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).
Islamiccalendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to determine the proper days of Islamic holidays...
It is older than the Lunar Hijri calendar used by the majority of Muslims (known in the West as the Islamiccalendar); though they both count from the...
very similar predecessor, the Julian calendar), the Islamiccalendar, the Solar Hijri calendar and the Hebrew calendar year, week, and weekday – e.g., the...
Tabular Islamiccalendar (Arabic: التقويم الهجري المجدول, romanized: altaqwim alhijriu almujadwal) is a rule-based variation of the Islamiccalendar. It has...
in Islam that are celebrated by Muslims worldwide: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. The timing of both holidays are set by the lunar Islamiccalendar, which...
most Islamic institutions and countries, including Saudi Arabia, follow astronomical calculations to determine future dates of the Islamiccalendar. There...
widely observed purely lunar calendar is the Islamiccalendar. A purely lunar calendar is distinguished from a lunisolar calendar, whose lunar months are brought...
Hijri calendar has more than one meaning. There are three calendars that have the Hijrah as their epoch In most Islamic countries The Islamiccalendar, the...
calendar, the Hebrew calendar, the Islamiccalendar, various Hindu calendars, the Zoroastrian calendar, etc. There are also various modern calendars that...
Hebrew calendar. Alternatively in a pure lunar calendar, years are defined as having always 12 lunations, so a year is 354 or 355 days long: the Islamic calendar...
The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah. This consists of all those who adhere...
calendar (Bengali: বাংলা সাল, also called the Bangla Year) is a civil calendar used in Bangladesh, alongside the Gregorian calendar and the Islamic calendar...
Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamiccalendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer...
new calendar by combining the lunar Islamiccalendar and solar Hindu calendar already in use, and this was known as Fasholi shan (harvest calendar). According...
beginning of the month in the Islamiccalendar and in some lunisolar calendars such as the Hebrew calendar. In the Chinese calendar, the beginning of the month...
concurrently with two other calendars, the Gregorian calendar and the Islamiccalendar. The Gregorian calendar is the official calendar of the Republic of Indonesia...
cultural experience Buddhist calendar Hindu calendar Indian national calendarIslamiccalendar Nepali Calendar Nanakshahi calendar The Punjabi periodicals...
Pakistan holidays are celebrated according to the Islamic or local Pakistani calendars for religious and civil purposes, respectively. Religious holidays...
point in Muhammad's life, this Hijrah also marks the beginning of the Islamiccalendar. In Medina, Muhammad sketched out the Constitution of Medina specifying...
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. It went into effect in October 1582 following the papal bull Inter gravissimas...
era is equal to below calendars. 963 AH (Islamiccalendar) 1556 AD (Julian calendar) 1612 SE (Hindu Samavat Calendar) Fasli Calendar is a chronological system...
of the Islamic world, either Iranian solar calendars, the Coptic calendar, the Rumi calendar, or other calendars based on the Julian calendar were used...
Consequently, holy days in Islam migrate around the solar year on a 32-year cycle. Some countries in the Islamic world use the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes...
otherwise noted. List of Gregorian Islamic observances List of observances set by the Solar Hijri calendar https://www.islamicfinder.org/islamic-calendar/...
intercalary year or bissextile year) is a calendar year that contains an additional day (or, in the case of a lunisolar calendar, a month) compared to a common year...
Global Information
