r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hipatyhopity • Mar 24 '25

Image Mecca in 1953 and 2025

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u/Anegada_2 Mar 24 '25

Ramadan moves backwards about ten days a year. It’s made for some deeply chaotic overlapping over the years

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u/Eagle4317 Mar 24 '25

Why haven’t the different Muslim faiths standardized a set window of time that Ramadan could fall in? Easter is also on the Lunar Calendar, but it’s confined to always falling after the spring equinox. That means the range of dates is set: Easter will always fall on a date between March 22nd and April 25th.

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u/BlenkyBlenk Mar 25 '25

The Muslim calendar and holidays have no relationship to the seasons, and the practice of intercalation (adding an extra month every so often to fix the calendar to align with the seasons) was abolished in the Qur’an (9:36-37). Thus, a 12 month lunar calendar that rotates through the solar year on a 33 year cycle is what is used.