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". Instead, the system continues the earlier ordering of the months, with the Hijrah occurring around the 8th day of Rabi al-Awwal, 66 days into the first year.īy the age of Muhammad, there was already an Arabian lunar calendar, with named months. The date of the Hijrah itself did not form the Islamic New Year. The Hijri era is calculated according to the Islamic lunar calendar, whose epoch (first year) is the year of Muhammad's Hijrah, and begins on the first day of the month of Muharram (equivalent to the Julian calendar date of July 16, 622 CE). See also: Lunar calendar and Solar calendar The year 2023 CE corresponds to the Islamic years AH 1444 – 1445 AH 1444 corresponds to 2022 – 2023 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 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). 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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