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 ...

Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar also known as the Hijri calendar ... the private sector equal official holidays in order to streamline work in both the public and private ...

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 ...

The Islamic new year, or the Hijri new year, marks the start of the Muslim lunar calendar. This year, it is set to fall during the second week of August 2021. The calendar has been observed for ...

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 Solar Hijri calendar corresponds to each of the 12 zodiac signs. The first six months of the Solar Hijri calendar have 31 days, the next five months of the calendar have 30 days and the last ...

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 ...