Rabī’ al-Thānī is the fourth month in the Islamic Calendar

Islamic calendar

The Hijri calendar , also known as the Muslim calendar or Islamic calendar , is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to date events in many Muslim countries , and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which to celebrate Islamic...

. It is also known as Rabī` al-Ākhir .

Timing

The Islamic calendar

Islamic calendar

The Hijri calendar , also known as the Muslim calendar or Islamic calendar , is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to date events in many Muslim countries , and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which to celebrate Islamic...

 is a lunar calendar

Lunar calendar

A lunar calendar is a calendar that is based on cycles of the lunar phase. A common purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar or Hijri calendar. A feature of the Islamic calendar is that a year is always 12 months, so the months are not linked with the seasons and drift each solar year by 11 to...

, and months begin when the first crescent of a new moon

New moon

In astronomical terminology, the new moon is the lunar phase that occurs when the Moon, in its monthly orbital motion around Earth, lies between Earth and the Sun, and is therefore in conjunction with the Sun as seen from Earth...

 is sighted. Since the Islamic lunar calendar year is 11 to 12 days shorter than the solar year, Rabī' al-Thānī migrates throughout the seasons. The estimated start and end dates for Rabī' al-Thānī are as follows (based on the Umm al-Qura calendar of Saudi Arabia):

AH	First day (CE Common Era Common Era ,abbreviated as CE, is an alternative designation for the calendar era originally introduced by Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th century, traditionally identified with Anno Domini .Dates before the year 1 CE are indicated by the usage of BCE, short for Before the Common Era Common Era...  / AD Anno Domini and Before Christ are designations used to label or number years used with the Julian and Gregorian calendars.... )	Last day (CE Common Era Common Era ,abbreviated as CE, is an alternative designation for the calendar era originally introduced by Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th century, traditionally identified with Anno Domini .Dates before the year 1 CE are indicated by the usage of BCE, short for Before the Common Era Common Era...  / AD Anno Domini and Before Christ are designations used to label or number years used with the Julian and Gregorian calendars.... )
1431	17 March 2010	14 April 2010
1432	6 March 2011	4 April 2011
1433	23 February 2012	23 March 2012
1434	11 February 2013	12 March 2013
1435	1 February 2014	1 March 2014
1436	21 January 2015	19 February 2015
1437	11 January 2016	9 February 2016
Rabī' al-Thānī dates between 2010 and 2016

Islamic Events

• 08 or 10 Rabī' al-Thānī, birth of Twelver Imām, Ḥasan al-‘Askarī
  Hasan al-Askari
  Hasan al-‘Askarī was the eleventh of the Twelve Imams. His given name was Hasan ibn ‘Alī ibn Muhammad...
  
  
• 10 or 12 Rabī’ al-Thānī, death of Fātimah al-Ma‘sūmah
• 10 Rabī’ al-Thānī, birth of the Head of all Sufi Chains, Sheikh
  Sheikh
  Not to be confused with sikhSheikh — also spelled Sheik or Shaikh, or transliterated as Shaykh — is an honorific in the Arabic language that literally means "elder" and carries the meaning "leader and/or governor"...
  
   Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani. Sufi Muslims celebrate his anniversary called Urs by making nice foods and conducting Meelads at homes and Mosques.

External links

• Islamic-Western Calendar Converter (Based on the Arithmetical or Tabular Calendar)
• Islamic Calendar / Hijri Calendar for Makkah