July 30 is Islamic – or Hijri – New Year’s Day and marks the start of the year 1444. The Hijri calendar, which comes from the Arabic word “hijra”, is named for the migration of the ...

Every year, Eid Al Adha moves around the calendar and begins on a different day. While longtime UAE residents know the reason behind those shifts in dates, many people are confused about how the ...

Since the migration, 1,443 lunar years have passed, meaning we are now in the year 1443, according to the Hijri calendar. The Islamic calendar is governed by the movements of the moon, meaning ...

Sha'ban, which precedes the holy month of Ramadan in the Islamic (Hijri) calendar, is likely to begin on March 4. As per astronomical calculations, the crescent moon - which signals the start of a ...

The United Arab Emirates launched a unified Hijri calendar ahead of the new Islamic year, the Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced on Monday. Ahmed Juma Al Za'abi, Deputy Minister for ...