Several calendars have been used in pre-Islamic Arabia. Inscriptions of the ancient South Arabian calendars reveal the use of a number of local calendars. At...

Pre-Islamic Arabia (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية قبل الإسلام), referring to the Arabian Peninsula before Muhammad's first revelation in 610 CE, is referred...

pre-Islamic Arabia included indigenous Arabian polytheism, ancient Semitic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism, and Zoroastrianism. Arabian polytheism...

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aspect of the pre-Islamic Arabian calendar, mentioned in the Quran in the context of the "four forbidden months". In pre-Islamic Arabia, the decision...

Iranian calendars Islamic calendar Jalali calendar Pre-Islamic Arabian calendar Rumi calendar Zoroastrian calendar Persian: گاه‌شماری خورشیدی, romanized: Gâhšomâri-ye...

different calendars. Arabic names of Gregorian months Months of the Islamic calendar Pre-Islamic month names Gregorian calendar Islamic calendar Pre-Islamic Arabian...

the Islamic calendar. The name Rabī‘ al-awwal means "the first month or beginning of spring", referring to its position in the pre-Islamic Arabian calendar...

denoting the dry and parched land and hence the dry months of the pre-Islamic Arabian calendar. Jumādā (Arabic: جُمَادَىٰ) may also be related to a verb meaning...

the Islamic calendar. The name Rabī‘ al-Thani means "the second spring" in Arabic, referring to its position in the pre-Islamic Arabian calendar. In the...

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Macedonian calendar Assyrian calendar Mandaean calendar Persian calendar Islamic calendar Solar Hijri calendar Pre-Islamic Arabian calendar Babylonian...

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the sun or the moon. The most common type of pre-modern calendar was the lunisolar calendar, a lunar calendar that occasionally adds one intercalary month...

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De Blois, "TAʾRĪKH": I.1.iv. "Pre-Islamic and agricultural calendars of the Arabian peninsula", The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition, X:260. Xu, Zhaofeng...

noted. Calendars fall into four types: lunisolar, solar, lunar and seasonal. Most pre-modern calendars are lunisolar. The seasonal calendars rely on...

polemical Islamic and Arabic term that refers to the period of time and state of affairs in Pre-Islamic Arabia before the advent of Islam in 609 CE....

Qiyāmah. The Quran emphasizes bodily resurrection, a break from the pre-Islamic Arabian understanding of death. On Yawm al-Qiyāmah, Muslims believe all humankind...

widely observed purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar. A purely lunar calendar is distinguished from a lunisolar calendar, whose lunar months are brought...

and partly in South Arabia, established themselves as one of the most prominent ethno-religious communities of pre-Islamic Arabia. Likewise, Judaism,...

Islam) originated as a moon god first arose in 1901 in the scholarship of archeologist Hugo Winckler. He identified the name Allah with a pre-Islamic...

Shawwal (Arabic: شَوَّال, Šawwāl) is the tenth month of the lunar Islamic calendar. Shawwāl stems from the Arabic verb shāla (شَالَ), which means to 'lift...

Islamic philosophy is philosophy that emerges from the Islamic tradition. Two terms traditionally used in the Islamic world are sometimes translated as...

the country. Islam spread over the entire Arabian region in the 7th century in a string of widespread conflicts resulting in the Islamization of the native...

الهجري at-taqwīm al-hijrī) is the era used in the Islamic lunar calendar. It begins its count from the Islamic New Year in which Muhammad and his followers...

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million Saudi Arabian residents are Muslims. The Basic Law of Saudi Arabia states that it is the duty of every citizen to defend Islam; most non-Muslim...

of Arabia under Islam and carried out social and religious reforms. By the time he died in about 11 AH (632 CE), almost all the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula...

second month of the lunar Islamic calendar. The Arabic word ṣafar means "travel, migration", corresponding to the pre-Islamic Arabian time period when Muslims...