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A year counted from a journey.
Also known as: Islamic calendar date, AH dating, Hijri date
The Islamic lunar calendar's date notation, counting years from the migration to Medina.
Purely lunar with no intercalation, so its year is about eleven days shorter than the solar year and its months move through the seasons over a thirty-three-year cycle — the calendar sacrifices the seasons to keep the months tied to the moon.
Month beginnings are determined in several traditions by observation of the crescent rather than by calculation, so the same month can begin on different days in different places and no single printed calendar is authoritative everywhere.
Month beginnings are determined by the authorities of each tradition and differ; no date here is an observance date.
A day, a month name and a year numeral followed by an abbreviation marking the era, written in Arabic script or in transliteration.