Please Note: Dates are according to the Day of Arafat (not local moon sightings).

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Islamic Calendars for 2010, 2011:



2010 CALENDAR OF IMPORTANT ISLAMIC DATES
Eid ul-Adha: November 16, 2010
Islamic New Year: December 7, 2010 (1432 A.H.)

2011 CALENDAR OF IMPORTANT ISLAMIC DATES
Aashura: December 16, 2010
Ramadan: August 1 - August 29, 2011
Eid ul-Fitr: August 30, 2011
Hajj - 9th day (Arafat): November 4th, 2011
Eid ul-Adha: November 6, 2011
Islamic New Year: November 26, 2011 (1433 A.H.)

NOTE: There are other days and dates celebrated by some Muslims in various cultures. However, these are not agreed upon by all Muslims. Check with your local Islamic leader for more information.

Recognizing hese holy days not only brings awareness of the diversity within the student population, but also instills pride in Muslim students who celebrate them. Muslim students may be embarrassed or shy to acknowledge these practices or holy days, which are not yet a part of the greater culture. A major benefit of living in such an open and multi-cultural region as America is that people of all backgrounds and cultures can share and enjoy each other's similarities as well as differences. We hope this information will be useful.

*After Hijrah. (Hijrah means "migration" in Arabic. This refers to the migration the Prophet Muhammad made from Mecca to Medina in the year 610 C.E., which marks the beginning of the Islamic Calendar.)

Please Note: Dates are subject to local sightings of the new moon for Ramadan and eid Al Fitr - but not for Arafat and Eid Al Adhan.
Dates associated with the Hajj (pilgrimage) all have to be referred to the actual day the hujjaj (pilgrims) are on the Plain of Arafat.

About the Islamic Calendar:

The Islamic calendar (or Hijri calendar) is a purely lunar calendar. It contains 12 months that are based on the motion of the moon, and because 12 synodic months are only 12 x 29.53= 354.36 days, the Islamic calendar is consistently shorter than a tropical year, and therefore it shifts approximately 10-12 days every year with respect to the Gregorian calendar.

Islamic New Year
Marks the beginning of a New Year in the Islamic calendar. There are an estimated 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, making Muslims one of the world's largest religious group in the United States. There are an estimated 6-8 million Muslims in America, making Muslims the second largest religious group in the United States. While the majority of American Muslims were born in this country, they are from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds: African-American, South Asian, Arab, African, Persian, and the remaining are European, Southeast Asian and Turkish.
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