Safar
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For other uses, see Safar (disambiguation).
Ṣafar (Arabic: صَفَر) also spelt as Safer[1] in Turkish, is the second month of the lunar Islamic calendar. The Arabic word ṣafar means "travel, migration", corresponding to the pre-Islamic Arabian time period when Muslims fled the oppression of Quraish in Mecca and travelled (mostly barefooted) to Madina.
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Safar | |
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Native name | صَفَر (Arabic) |
Calendar | Islamic calendar |
Month number | 2 |
Number of days | 29 or 30 (depends on actual observation of the moon's crescent) |
Significant days | Hijrah |
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Most of the Islamic months were named according to ancient Sabean/Sabaic weather conditions; however, since the calendar is lunar, the months shift by about 11 days every solar year, meaning that these conditions do not necessarily correspond to the name of the month.