Establishment ġ7 years after the Hijra, a complaint from Abu Musa Ashaari prompted the caliph Umar to abolish the practice of named years and to establish a new calendar era. The first year of the Hijra (622-23 CE) was named the 'Permission to Travel' in this calendar. Likewise, the years of its calendar used conventional names rather than numbers: for example, the year of the birth of Muhammad and of Ammar ibn Yasir (570 CE) was known as the ' Year of the Elephant'. Each year begins on the northward equinox.īy the age of Muhammad, there was already an Arabian lunar calendar, with named months. In Sunni Islam, the calendar year is entirely determined by solar observation or calculation. For example, Shias state that the Muharram-transpiring battle of Karbala occurred 60 years after the Hijra, while Sunnis state it to have occurred 61 years after. As a result of this, the dates of some events are described differently by one year. Unlike Sunnis, Twelver Shias start the Hijri year with the month of the Hijra, Rabi' al-Awwal, rejecting that Muharram is the start of a new year. Definition įurther information: Solar Hijri calendar The year 2024 CE corresponds to the Islamic years AH 1445 – 1446 AH 1445 corresponds to 2023 – 2024 in the Common Era. Consequently, its New Year's Day occurs ten days earlier each year relative to the Gregorian calendar. Ī year in the Islamic lunar calendar consists of twelve lunar months and has only 354 or 355 days in its year. Years prior to AH 1 are reckoned in English as BH ('Before the Hijrah'), which should follow the date. In predominantly Muslim countries, it is also commonly abbreviated H ('Hijra') from its Arabic abbreviation hāʾ ( هـ). In the West, this era is most commonly denoted as AH ( Latin: Anno Hegirae, / ˈ æ n oʊ ˈ h ɛ dʒ ɪ r iː/, 'in the year of the Hijra') in parallel with the Christian/ Common (AD/CE) and Jewish eras (AM) and can similarly be placed before (preferably) or after the date. This event, known as the Hijrah, is commemorated in Islam for its role in the founding of the first Muslim community ( ummah). It begins its count from the Islamic New Year in which Muhammad and his followers migrated from Mecca to Yathrib (now Medina) in 622 CE. The Hijri year ( Arabic: سَنة هِجْريّة) or era ( التقويم الهجري at-taqwīm al-hijrī) is the era used in the Islamic lunar calendar.

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