Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan. Here's what you need to know about the Islamic holiday that will be celebrated at the ...

many people are confused about how the Islamic calendar works. Also known as the Hijri calendar, the Islamic calendar is based on the cycles of the moon, unlike the more widely used Gregorian calendar ...

For Muslims, the Islamic calendar, also called the Hijri calendar, holds religious significance and was the main calendar of day-to-day life until the process of westernisation across the Islamic ...

The UAE public holiday law was updated at the beginning of 2025 to allow holiday dates tied to the Islamic Hijri calendar to ...

How is the start of Ramadan determined? According to Al Jazeera, Ramadan is determined by the Islamic lunar calendar, also known as the Hijri calendar, which is based on the phases of the moon.

Eid-ul-Fitr falls on the first three days of Shawwal, the 10th month of the Hijri, or the Islamic lunar calendar.

This unique alignment between the Hijri (Islamic lunar) calendar and the Gregorian calendar happens only once every 33 years. Eng. Majed Abu Zahra, President of the Jeddah Astronomical Society ...