Talk:Islamic New Year

Muslim event

It is a Muslim event, not an Islamic one.--Irishpunktom\^talk 11:31, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Here's a question...

Are the incorrect parts offensive, or just incorrect? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.231.204.160 (talk) 02:04, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Query about definition

The main article says "all future dates are estimates and depend on sightings of the new moon"

However, this Saudi site suggests that this was changed in 1999, and then modified again in 2003, to a truly astronomical definition that doesn't depend on visibility any more:

Islamic Crescents Observation Project

I'm not an expert, so I don't want to edit the page in case the website I've linked to is wrong. Anyone know the definitive answer?

--BristolChris (talk) 22:00, 3 April 2008 (UTC) There isn't one ... Many muslim countries had signed a treaty some time back to agree on an astronomical definition (or at least one in which all countries agreed on whether there was a sighting or not), but many disregarded it eventually. This means that quite often muslim religious holidays end up getting celebrated on different days, sometimes even neighboring countries ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.12.153.207 (talk) 07:08, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

http://www.worldtravelguide.net/ is unrelaible

This website is unreliable as the info which it imparts is not 100% correct, e.g. this website lists Islamic New Year as a holiday in India actually the holiday in India which is known as Muharram is for Day of Ashura i.e. 10th of Muharram & not for 1st of Muharram. There is similar case for many other countries. IMO we should refer official website of countries for public holidays.--Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider^tc_s 11:06, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

The website does not gives detail for the holidays, it just gives the date e.g. for Bangaladesh it gives date 'Dec 16' and no detail, now Dec 16 this year i.e. 2010 is not start of 1432 AH (satrt of 1432 AH falls falls on 7 Dec 2010) but is Day of Ashura which actually is a public holiday all across South Asia (i.e. Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, etc) and reffered to as Muharram in general and official termology (that may be point leading to confusion but website gives no such info). I have already removed Bangladesh from the list will be removing all other countries for which there is no info. --Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider^tc_s 06:15, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

After investigation I found out that the case for Bngaldesh is true for all the items in the list "Countries observing Islamic New Year", and so I have removed them all and commented the empty section. In future plz add item to list only when you have a Reliable Source e.g. Govt. website. --Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider^tc_s 06:47, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

hijra time

Higra was in 622 AD, not in 610, when Muhammad began to preach.