Category:The Islamic Jewish Calendar
The Islamic Jewish Calendar
How the Pilgrimage of the 9th of Av became the Hajj of the 9th of Dhu'al-Hijjah.
By Ben Abrahamson and Joseph Katz
Published 2007
Abstract:
The Islamic or Hijra calendar is made up of 12 lunar months. Traces of Jewish holidays like Rosh Hashanah[1], Yom Kippur[2], Pesach (Passover)[3] and Shavout (Pentacost) are still evident in this calendar. However, because of structural changes in the Islamic calendar, the Jewish and Islamic “celebration” of those holidays coincides only once in about 33 years. It is known that the Jews of Arabia felt that they were the “true mourners of Zion” and carried customs of mourning for the destruction of the Temple to extremes not matched by Jews elsewhere[4]. And we can assume that the mourning for the Temple influenced pre-Islamic culture to some extent. But even so, it is surprising to find one of the most holy days of the Islamic calendar -- the 9th of Dhu al Hijja, the Day of Arafat, the height of the Hajj pilgrimage – corresponding to the the Jewish fast day of the 9th of Av (which commemorates the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE). And the fast of Ramadan to be based on the Jewish Sefirat haOmer[5] which among other things is a time of mourning for the hundreds of thousands killed after Bar Kochba’s failed revolt in 135 CE.
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Pages in category "The Islamic Jewish Calendar"
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
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- The Arab-Jewish Sanhedrin, 412 CE
- The Destruction of the Temple, 9th Av, 70 CE – a new pilgrimage
- The Disbanding of the Sanhedrin, 358 CE
- The Islamic Jewish Calendar
- The Modern Islamic calendar
- The Pre-Islamic Calendar
- The Pre-Islamic Week
- The Prophet’s (pbuh) Encounter with Yom Kippur (Ashura), 622 CE
- The Temple Calendar and the Sanhedrin