Eid al-Fitr is the first of two celebratory days in the Islamic calendar, both observed every year. Though the holiday is marked on one day, some will celebrate this festival for as long as three ...

The Islamic calendar relies on the cycles of the moon, unlike the more widely used Gregorian calendar, which is based on the sun. Months in the Hijri calendar are all either 29 days long or 30 days ...

Eid al-Fitr is the first of two celebratory days in the Islamic calendar, both observed every year. Though the holiday is marked on one day, some Muslims will celebrate the festival for as long as ...

Dozens of Muslim students, teachers, parents and community members turned out to support the change, which the board approved unanimously.

The New Jersey man who vandalized the Rutgers Islamic center last year was sentenced on Wednesday to six months in prison. Jacob Beacher, 25, was also fined $19,345 and will be placed under ...

The festival is celebrated over the first three days of Shawwāl, the 10th month of the Islamic calendar. Unlike Christmas, Eid does not fall on the same date every year. Muslim festivals and ...

Eid al-Fitr is the first of two celebratory days in the Islamic calendar, both observed every year. Though the holiday is marked on one day, some will celebrate this festival for as long as three ...

A New Jersey man has been sentenced to six months in jail for breaking into a Rutgers University Islamic center on the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Fitr and vandalizing it. Jacob Beacher, of North ...

As such, dates on the Islamic calendar come 10–12 days earlier each year. This means the dates of both Eids also move about 11 days forward each year. In terms of the Islamic calendar ...

landing on the last weekend in March this year under the Islamic lunar calendar. Robert McCullough said his Ramadan routine involved waking up around 3 a.m. to eat, drink and read the Quran.