Islamic New Year

Short description: Beginning of a new lunar Hijri year

Not to be confused with Nowruz, the New Year in the solar Hijri calendar.

Islamic New Year

Official name| Arabic: رأس السنة الهجرية
Raʿs as-Sanah al-Hijrīyah
Also called| Hijri New Year
Observed by| Muslims
Type| Islamic
Begins| Last day of Dhu al-Hijjah
Ends| 1 Muharram
Date| 29/30 Dhu al-Hijjah – 1 Muharram
2025 date| 25 - 26 June 2025
2026 date| 16 June 2026 (estimated[lower-alpha 1])
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The Islamic New Year (Arabic: رأس السنة الهجرية, Raʿs as-Sanah al-Hijrīyah), also called the Hijri New Year, is the day that marks the beginning of a new lunar Hijri year, and is the day on which the year count is incremented. The first day of the Islamic year is observed by most Muslims on the first day of the month of Muharram. The epoch (reference date) of the Islamic era was set as the year of the emigration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina, known as the Hijrah, which equates to 622 CE in the Gregorian calendar.[1] All religious duties, such as prayer, fasting in the month of Ramadan, and pilgrimage, and the dates of significant events, such as celebration of holy nights and festivals, are calculated according to the Islamic calendar. Hijri New Year is observed by 24 countries as a public holiday.[2]

While some Islamic organizations prefer determining the new month (and hence the new year) by local sightings of the moon,[3] most Islamic institutions and countries, including Saudi Arabia,[4] follow astronomical calculations to determine future dates of the Islamic calendar. There are various schemas for calculating the tabular Islamic calendar (i.e. not based on observation), which results in differences of typically one or even two days between countries using such schema and those that use actual lunar sightings. For example, the Umm al-Qura calendar used in Saudi Arabia was reformed several times in recent years. The current scheme was introduced in 1423 AH (15 March 2002).[5][6]

A day in the Islamic calendar is defined as beginning at sunset. For example, 1 Muharram 1432 was defined to correspond to 7 or 8 December 2010 in civil calendars (depending on the country). For an observation-based calendar, a sighting of the new moon at sunset of 6 December would mean that 1 Muharram lasted from the moment of sunset of 6 December to the moment of sunset of 7 December, while in places where the new moon was not sighted on 6 December 1 Muharram would last from the moment of sunset of 7 December to the moment of sunset of 8 December.[7]

## Contents

* 1 Alternative date
* 2 Gregorian correspondence
* 3 See also
* 4 Notes
* 5 References
* 6 External links
* 6.1 Calendar converters

## Alternative date

Twelver Shia Muslims believe the Islamic new year is the first of Rabi' al-Awwal rather than Muharram, due to it being the month in which the Hijrah took place.[8] This has led to difference regarding description of the years in which some events took place, such as the Muharram-occurring battle of Karbala, which Shias say took place in 60 AH, while Sunnis say it took place in 61 AH.[9]

## Gregorian correspondence

Since the Islamic lunar year is eleven to twelve days shorter than the solar year as approximated by the Gregorian calendar, the Islamic New Year does not occur on the same Gregorian calendar date every year.

The following dates beyond the current year are the Gregorian calendar dates are predicted to correspond with 1 Muharram (Islamic new year), according to Saudi Arabia's Umm al-Qura calendar.[10] (Dates calculated according to the tabular Islamic calendar may differ from the Umm al-Qura calendar dates by one or even two days on either side, because the motions of the sun and moon are not strictly linear and because observation methods and locations differ.[11])

Islamic year  | Gregorian date[lower-alpha 1]

|

1446 AH | 8 July 2024[12]
1447 AH | 26 June 2025[13]
1448 AH | 16 June 2026 (estimated)[14]
1449 AH | 6 June 2027 (estimated)
1450 AH | 25 May 2028 (estimated)

## See also

* Solar Hijri calendar

## Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The actual Gregorian date of 1 Muharram may differ by locality according to local traditions, time zone and atmospheric conditions.

## References

1. ↑ Lunde, Paul. "The Beginning of Hijri calendar". Saudi Aramco World Magazine (November/December 2005). https://www.soundvision.com/article/the-beginning-of-hijri-calendar. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
2. ↑ "Islamic New Year around the world in 2025" (in en). https://www.officeholidays.com/holidays/islamic-new-year.
3. ↑ "Islamic Crescents' Observation Project". http://www.icoproject.org/.
4. ↑ "Saudi Dating System". Islamic Crescents' Observation Project. http://www.icoproject.org/sau.html.
5. ↑ van Gent, Robert Harry. "The Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia". https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/islam/ummalqura.htm.
6. ↑ Naik, Dr Zakir. "Can We Wish Islamic New Year?" (in en-AU). https://islampidia.org/en/can-we-wish-islamic-new-year/.
7. ↑ "Visibility of Muharram Crescent 1432 AH". Islamic Crescents' Observation Project. http://www.icoproject.org/icop/muh32.html. ; seen on 6 December in Algeria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, South Africa.
8. ↑ Al-Hilli, Mohammed (22 September 2021). "Muharram May Not Be The Start Of The Islamic Hijri New Year". https://www.al-islam.org/media/muharram-may-not-be-start-islamic-hijri-new-year.
9. ↑ Rizvi, Sa'eed Akhtar (1401). "Martyrdom of Imam Husayn and the Muslim and Jewish Calendars". Al-Serat (A Journal of Islamic Studies) 6 (3–4). https://www.al-islam.org/al-serat/vol-6-no-3-4-1401ah/martyrdom-imam-husayn-and-muslim-and-jewish-calendars-sayyid-saeed-0. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
10. ↑ "Principal Islamic days of observation (1420 AH to 1450 AH).". http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/islam/ummalqura_principal.htm.
11. ↑ Dershowitz, Nachum; Reingold, Edward M. (2008). "6. The Islamic calendar". Calendrical Calculations (Third ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 82–87. ISBN 9780521885409. OCLC 144768713.
12. ↑ "Important dates in Islamic Calendar in the Year 2024". https://www.al-habib.info/islamic-calendar/global/global-islamic-calendar-year-2024-ce.htm.
13. ↑ "Important dates in Islamic Calendar in the Year 2025". https://www.al-habib.info/islamic-calendar/global/global-islamic-calendar-year-2025-ce.htm#hijrievents.
14. ↑ "Important dates in Islamic Calendar in the Year 2026". https://www.al-habib.info/islamic-calendar/global/global-islamic-calendar-year-2026-ce.htm.

## External links

### Calendar converters

Calendar converters typically rely on the tabular Islamic calendar.

* Beers, T.S. (2018). "Calendar Converter for Near East Historians". https://www.muqawwim.com/.
* Walker, John (September 2015). "Calendar converter". https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/.

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