Tag: calendars
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Muharram / Al-Hijra
The month of Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar, reckoned from the date of the Hijra, Muhammad’s arrival in Yathrib – Medina – to establish the Muslim community in exile from Mecca. Not exactly a holiday, but a milestone, and an invitation to ponder the significance of that historical event. Image: Ceramic…
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First Night of Passover
The first night of Passover will never again coincide with the Thursday evening before the Sabbath before Christian Easter, or to put it another way, with Christians’ Maundy Thursday as narrated in the synoptic gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. This is for historical and calendrical reasons, explained here. This year, however, the second night…
Matters of Interpretation 