Compared to western calendars the islamic year goes backwards by about 11 days every year.
2020 june islamic new year 2020 calendar.
The islamic new year starts off with muharram followed by safar rabi al awwal rabi al thani jumada al awwal jumada al thani rajab shaban ramadan shawwal dhul qadah and dhul.
Sunnah fasting yaumul bidh 15 dhul hijjah 1441 h wednesday 05 aug 2020 islamic new year 1 muharram 1442 h thursday 20 aug 2020.
Muharram has great significance in the islamic hijri calendar.
Check upcoming special islamic days dates in the gregorian calendar 2020.
The islamic new year arabic.
Event hijri date day christian era date.
The islamic calendar.
However it consists of 354 355 days unlike the 365 366 days in the regular calendar.
Islam has a calendar based on the revolutions of the moon rather than the sun.
Islamic new year is celebrated on the first day of muharram the first islamic month.
The islamic calendar consists of 12 months similar to the gregorian calendar.
These dates may vary because sighting of the moon varies from country to country.
رأس السنة الهجرية raʿs as sanah al hijrīyah also called the hijri new year or arabic new year is the day that marks the beginning of a new hijri year and is the day on which the year count is incremented the first day of the islamic year is observed by muslims on the first day of the month of muharram.
Download or print islamic calendar 2020 and check hijri dates with the list of holidays in 2020.
June 2020 shawwal dhul qa dah 1441.
Islamic new year 2020 or islamic new hijri year 1441 will begin on the evening of 19th august 2020 on wednesday and 1st muharram 2020 will be on thursday 20th august 2020.