Muharram

Muharram (Arabic محرم, DMG Muharram ) is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It comprises 30 days.

Since the Islamic calendar is calculated by lunar years and compared with the Gregorian calendar is shorter hike the Islamic months in the course of several decades the solar year.

In the first ten days of Muharram, the Shia commit their highest mourning festival, the Ashura rituals in which they commemorate the death of Imam Al -Husayn in the battle of Karbala.

The Alevis commemorate the month of Muharram of the death of Imam Al -Husayn. Fast and mourn for twelve days, as a symbolic reference to the twelve imams, who - according to Shia, as after Alevi view - all were killed, except for the 12th Imam Mahdi. On the twelfth day one breaks his fast with taking of Ashura, a dessert made of twelve ingredients - each ingredient symbolizes an imam. The month is for the Alevis as a month of mourning for Shiites, but the Alevis scourge in the month and do not represent the martyrdom of Husain not as a spectacle dar.

Estimated Dates

• November 4, 2013 - December 3, 2013
• October 25, 2014 - November 22, 2014
• October 14, 2015 - November 12, 2015

( The details follow the Saudi Arabian Umm -al- Qura calendar. )