Jumada al-Thani

Jumada al-Thani
Ali won the Battle of Bassorah in this month
Native nameجُمَادَىٰ ٱلثَّانِي (Arabic)
CalendarIslamic calendar
Month number6
Number of days29-30 (depends on actual observation of the moon's crescent)

Jumada al-Thani (Arabic: جُمَادَىٰ ٱلثَّانِي, romanizedJumādā ath-Thānī, lit.'The second Jumada'), also known as Jumada al-Akhirah (Arabic: جُمَادَىٰ ٱلْآخِرَة, romanized: Jumādā al-ʾĀkhirah, lit.'The final Jumada'), Jumada al-Akhir (Arabic: جُمَادَىٰ ٱلْآخِر, romanized: Jumādā al-ʾĀkhir), or Jumada II, is the sixth month of the Islamic calendar. The word Jumda (Arabic: جمد), from which the name of the month is derived, is used to denote dry, parched land, a land devoid of rain.[citation needed] Jumādā (Arabic: جُمَادَىٰ) may also be related to a verb meaning "to freeze", and another account relates that water would freeze in pre-Islamic Arabia during this time of year.

In Ottoman Turkish, the month was called Jèmāzìyyu-'l-ākhir,[1] or G̃emazi-yèl-Aher.[2] The month's Turkish abbreviation was jìm',[1] and its Latin abbreviation was Djem. II.[3] This is also spelled Cümadelahir[4] or Cümâd-el-âhire.[citation needed] The modern Turkish spellings are Cemaziyelahir and Cemaziyelsani.

Timing

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The Islamic calendar is a purely lunar calendar, and months begin when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. Since the Islamic lunar year is 11 to 12 days shorter than the solar year, Jumada al-Thani migrates throughout the seasons. The estimated start and end dates for Jumada al-Thani are as follows (based on the Umm al-Qura calendar of Saudi Arabia[5]):

Jumada al-Thani dates between 2022 and 2025
AH First day (CE/AD) Last day (CE/AD
1443 04 January 2022 01 February 2022
1444 25 December 2022 22 January 2023
1445 14 December 2023 12 January 2024
1446 02 December 2024 31 December 2024
1447 022 November 2025 20 December 2025

Islamic events

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Redhouse, J.W. (1880). REDHOUSE'S TURKISH DICTIONARY. p. 513.
  2. ^ Youssof, R. (1890). Dictionnaire portatif turc-français de la langue usuelle en caractères latins et turcs. Constantinople. p. 177.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Alternate link at the National Library of France
  3. ^ Young, George (1905). Corps de droit ottoman; recueil des codes, lois, règlements, ordonnances et actes les plus importants du droit intérieur, et d'études sur le droit coutumier de l'Empire ottoman (in French). Vol. 1. Clarendon Press. p. 86.. Young states that "Djem. II 1281" is equivalent to "November 1864", which means he is referring to Cümadelahir, a.k.a. Jumada al-Thani.
  4. ^ Akiba, Jun. "From Kadı to Naib: Reorganization of the Ottoman Sharia Judiciary in the Tanzimat Period". In Imer, Colin; Keiko Kiyotaki (eds.). Frontiers of Ottoman Studies. Vol. 1. London/New York: I.B. Tauris. p. 43. ISBN 9781850436317. - CITED: p. 59 // Akiba states that "Cümadelahir 1281" is equivalent to "November 1864", which means he is referring to Cümadelahir, a.k.a. Jumada al-Thani.
  5. ^ Umm Al-Qura calendar of Saudi Arabia
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