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Shia Islamic Calendar 2012

The Islamic Hijri calendar is purely lunar i.e. it depends on the moon’s cycle around earth. it has twelve lunar months;this was mentioned by the great prophet(SWT) in his last Pilgrimage at Ghadir-Khumm: “A year is twelve months, as at the time of Creation”.

Also in the Holy Quran, Sura IX, verse 36 reads: “Verily twelve months is the number of the months with Allah, according to Allah’s Book, ever since the day when He created Heavens and Earth.”

Since the average length of a lunar month is 29.53058 (solar)days, the hijri year will contain 29 or 30 days long months.. The total length of the Hijri year will be 354 days moving back 11 days for each solar year with a leap day accumulating about every three years.This means that the lunar cycle will repeat itself every 33 years. i.e the new moon falls in about the same time it occured 33 years ago.

Before Islam, the Arabs used to add a leap month to the lunar year every three years in order to stay in sync with the solar cycle.

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