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Islamic New Year
The first day of Muharram opens the Lunar Hijri year. Sunni and Shia communities mark it with prayer and reflection.
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Islamic New Year
The first day of Muharram opens the Lunar Hijri year. Sunni and Shia communities mark it with prayer and reflection.
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Islamic New Year
آغاز سال هجری قمریآغاز سال هجری قمری
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1 Muharram, Lunar Hijri (moves about 11 days earlier each year)
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21 fixed-date days · this one in redJANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPOCTNOVDECPS752 remembrance · 8 JanuaryWoman, Life, Freedom anniversary · 16 SeptemberNewroz (Kurdish new year) · 21 MarchRumi’s birthday · 30 SeptemberConstitutional Revolution, decree of 5 August 1906 · 5 AugustCyrus the Great and the Cyrus Cylinder · 29 OctoberBam earthquake remembrance · 26 DecemberHalabja remembrance · 16 MarchKurdish Journalism Day · 22 AprilKurdish Language Day · 15 MaySeb-i Arus (Rumi's wedding night) · 17 DecemberArmenian Christmas and Theophany · 6 JanuaryKha b-Nisan (Assyrian new year) · 1 AprilChristmas (Assyrian and Chaldean churches) · 25 DecemberForough Farrokhzad remembrance · 13 FebruarySadegh Hedayat remembrance · 9 AprilSardasht chemical attack remembrance · 28 JuneIran Air Flight 655 remembrance · 3 JulyManjil-Rudbar earthquake remembrance · 21 JuneKermanshah earthquake remembrance · 12 NovemberBaloch Culture Day · 2 March
Islamic New Year moves with its calendar (lunar-hijri), so it has no fixed place on this strip.
Fixed-date days on the strip; movable days are listed by their own calendar.
Other days in the lunar-hijri calendar
612 Rabi al-Awwal, Lunar Hijri (moves about 11 days earlier each year)
Mawlid (12 Rabi al-Awwal)religious
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Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr1 ShawwalMuharram and Ashura10 MuharramEid al-Adha (Eid-e Qorban)10 Dhu al-HijjahTasua9 Muharram, Lunar Hijri (moves about 11 days earlier each year)Arbaeen20 Safar, Lunar Hijri (moves about 11 days earlier each year)Mawlid (12 Rabi al-Awwal)12 Rabi al-Awwal, Lunar Hijri (moves about 11 days earlier each year)Topics
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