Country specific Islamic

Calendar & Hijri Calendar

Introduction
Country Specific Islamic Calendar Introduction

Since several years we publish regularly a calendar for

Makkah on our site (makkahcalendar.org), valid also for
the entire of the Arabic promontory. A calendar that is
both in congruity with Sharia and deductively exact. We
have additionally demonstrated that the technique we
utilize for calculating the calendar for Makkah is
generalizable and utilisable for whatever country in the
world. Therefore driving us towards setting up calendars
for all countries in the world, calculable years in advance,
rigorously dedicated to the statutes of Islam, at the
leading edge of present astronomical knowledge and
above all free of all arbitrary national choices. In fact,
we as of now utilize this strategy to decide the dates for
the start and end of Ramadan and in addition the start of
Dhul- Hijjah month.

After a great deal of investment in both time and in grey

matter, we are pleased to declare to our steadfast
perusers that from 01-03-2015 onwards, we will publish on
our site, year after year, a particular Hegirian calendar for
each and every country in the world. We hope that our
effort will contribute in a significant manner to the
fulfilment of the Muslim people group all over the world.

We outline below the method that we have used in order

to establish a calendar for each country. Since we will
give only a consolidated rendition of the clarification, we
welcome our readers to refer to the detailed introduction
of our calculation for the calendar for Makkah by clicking
on this link. Our strategy for figuring particular calendars is
the same in basically.

At the start of each Islamic month we publish the

predicable visibility curves of the new moon on our site,
covering the entire earth. These visibility curves are
presented in various shading zones reaching out from
certain bare eye visibility to the nonappearance of any
visibility even with capable optical tools. Within these
visibility zones we choose a point of reference just within
the tip of the parabola representing the blue zone. The
reason for choosing this specific reference point is
adequately explained in the introduction to the Islamic
Calendar.

For every nation in the world, we pick a point at the

extreme east of the nation. In the event that Fajr now is
after the visibility of the crescent (defined by the best
time of visibility) at the point of reference in the blue zone,
then the Islamic month will be considered as having
started in the country, similarly as though the moon had
been visible in the country just after sunset. We pick the
easternmost point in the country because if visibility is
acquired before Fajr in the east, it will all the more be
gained assist west, where Fajr is later. We have called this
idea: the idea of the extension of the visibility zone.

We need to present a subtlety in the decision of the

easternmost point in each country. Indeed, it happens
that for some countries the easternmost point is lost in an
uninhabited domain in the sea, in the mountains, in virgin
forest or in the desert. Thus, in practice, we characterize
the easternmost point as the last inhabited and identified
locality on a geographical map.

A moment subtlety must be presented for the specific

instances of both China and Russia. Give us a chance to
consider every case by turn:

China:

China occupies a longitudinal spread from 74E to 135E.

Although the country follows a single time zone (Beijing
time), in practice the country functions differently in the
east and in the west. Thus it seemed reasonable to us to
define for the regular situation where the totality of the
country does not fall Inside solitary visibility zone two
distinct calendars: for Eastern China and for Western
China. Thus the reader will discover two choices for China
in the list of countries. The cities we have retained for the
Fajr calculations for the two zones are respectively Fuyuan
County, Jiamisu, Heilongjiang (48.4N, 134.3E) for Eastern
China and Chengdu (30.7N, 104.1E) for Western China.
Russia:

Russia, the biggest country in the world, covers

longitudinally the entire of the eastern side of the equator
from 20E onwards. Whats more, it bulges into a part of
the western half of the globe, crossing the International
Date Line, until 170W. Since October 2014, Russia
functions with 11 different time zones. In any case, it
would not be sensible at all to define 11 different
calendars for Russia. Along these lines we have decided
on three calendars, for the situation where all of the
country is not secured by a single visibility zone. These
calendars are: Eastern, Central and Western Russia. The
localities we have held for the Fajr calculations are
respectively: Uelen (66.2N, 169.8W) for Eastern Russia,
Yakutsk (62.0N, 129.7E) for Central Russia and
Nizhnevartovsk (61.0N, 76.6E) for Western Russia. The
reader will thus find three options for Russia in the list of
countries.

United States of America & Canada:

The thinking for China and for Russia does not apply to the
two other very large countries of the world: USA and
Canada. Our experience shows that, practically each
month, both these countries fall inside the expansion of
the zone of visibility in the Pacific Ocean. We will not fail to
point out to our readers the cases that are not in similarity
with this run the show.
Saudi Arabia:

The instance of Saudi Arabia is distinctive. The very

purpose behind the presence of our site, and its origin, lie
in establishing an accurate calendar for Makkah. It so
happens that the easternmost purpose of the country is in
Shaybah (22.5N 54.0E). In practically all cases, the two
calendars will be identical, Saudi Arabia not being a very
big country. However, in the list for the countries, we have
picked a double designation for this country:
Makkah/Saudi Arabia. In the uncommon situations where
the two calendars are different we will publish both.

With the production of dependable country particular

calendars for the whole world, we hope to have taken a
large step towards the unification of the Islamic world
around the Word of God. The feat is particularly significant
because we have as of now appeared by strict
combinatory analytics that the total and theoretical
number of legitimate Islamic calendars in the world is 584
( number of islamic calendars). Is it not a grace to be able
with the same scientific rigour to be able to reduce this
number to just one calendar by country, calculated and
published month after month.

May the Almighty guide our efforts in this direction! God

has guaranteed: And who is more dedicated to His
Guarantee than God? (Surah 9, Verse 111). Assist, God
has promised to those amongst you who accept and do
honourable deeds, that He will doubt set up them as His
lieutenants on earth, as He has accomplished for those
who lived before them. He has guaranteed to set up
solidly firmly religion that he has decided for them, and to
change their dread in security and peace. (Surah 24,
Verse 55)

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