Which month is this in islamic calendar

The Islamic Calendar，or Muslim Calendar, or Hijri Calendar is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to date events in many Muslim countries today. It is also used by Muslims to determine the proper days of Islamic holidays and rituals, such as the annual period of fasting and the proper time for the pilgrimage to Mecca. The Islamic calendar employs the Hijri era whose epoch was retrospectively established as the Islamic New Year of AD 622. During that year, Muhammad and his followers migrated from Mecca to Medina and established the first Muslim community (ummah), an event commemorated as the Hijra. Use our online service to find today's Islamic date and convert any date(1951-2100) from gregorian to hijri and hijri to gregorian. Islamic Calendar Today Western Date: June 16, 2023 Hijri Date: Dhul Qa'dah 27, 1444 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 Dhul Qa'dah 12 2 Dhul Qa'dah 13 3 Dhul Qa'dah 14 4 Dhul Qa'dah 15 5 Dhul Qa'dah 16 6 Dhul Qa'dah 17 7 Dhul Qa'dah 18 8 Dhul Qa'dah 19 9 Dhul Qa'dah 20 10 Dhul Qa'dah 21 11 Dhul Qa'dah 22 12 Dhul Qa'dah 23 13 Dhul Qa'dah 24 14 Dhul Qa'dah 25 15 Dhul Qa'dah 26 16 Dhul Qa'dah 27 17 Dhul Qa'dah 28 18 Dhul Qa'dah 29 19 Dhul-Hijjah 1 20 Dhul-Hijjah 2 21 Dhul-Hijjah 3 22 Dhul-Hijjah 4 23 Dhul-Hijjah 5 24 Dhul-Hijjah 6 25 Dhul-Hijjah 7 26 Dhul-Hijjah 8 27 Dhul-Hijjah 9 28 Eid al-Adha 29 Dhul-Hijjah 11 30 Dhul-Hijjah 12 Months of the Islamic Calendar 1. Muharram: A sacred month, so called because battl...

Indeed, there are many causes behind naming months of the Islamic calendar as such. In what follows we will try to shed some light on some of those causes: 1. Muharram: is named so because the Arabs used to prohibit fighting during it. 2. Safar: is named so because the Arabs used to leave their homes during that month as they used to set out to fight their enemies. It is also said that they used to leave their homes to escape summer heat. 3. Rabi` al-Awwal: is named so because it usually coincides with the spring time. 4. Rabi` al-Akhar: is named so because it usually coincides with the winter time. 5. Jumada al-‘Ula: The Arabs named it so because water gets frozen at winter time, and that coincides with the time of Jumada al-‘Ula. 6. Jumada al-‘Ukhra: is named so because it coincides with winter time. 7. 8. Sha`ban: The Arabic word Sha`ban is derived from the word ‘tash`aba’, which means to go in different directions. It is said that Sha`ban takes such a name because the Arabs used to go in different directions fighting their enemies. 9. 10. Shawwal: The name Shawwal is derived from the Arabic word ‘tashawwala’, which refers to the scarcity in she-camels’ milk. 11. Dhu-al-Qi`dah: refers to Arabs decline to go out fighting their enemies as the early Arabs used to call it a sacred month. 12. Dhu-al-Hijjah: is named so because the Arabs used to perform Share Since the advent of Islam, till a few decades before today, traveling to perform hajj and staying there was extremely ...