Rabiʽ al-Thani

Rabiʽ al-Thani (Arabic: رَبِيع ٱلثَّانِي‎, Rabīʿ ath-Thānī) also known as Rabiʽ al-Akhir (رَبِيع ٱلْآخِر, Rabīʿ al-ʾĀkhir), is the fourth month in the Islamic calendar.

In the Ottoman Empire days, the name of this month in Ottoman Turkish was Rèbi' ul-aher, with the Turkish abbreviation Rè,[1] or Reb.-ul-Akh. in western European languages.[2] In modern Turkish it is Rebiülahir or Rebiülsani.

Timing

The Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, and months begin when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. Since the Islamic lunar calendar year is 11 to 12 days shorter than the tropical 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[3]):

Rabī' al-Thānī dates between 2017 and 2022
AH	First day (CE/AD)	Last day (CE/AD)
1439	19 December 2017	17 January 2018
1440	08 December 2018	06 January 2019
1441	28 November 2019	26 December 2019
1442	16 November 2020	15 December 2020
1443	06 November 2021	04 December 2021
1444	26 October 2022	24 November 2022

Islamic events

08 or 10 Rabī' al-Thānī, the birth of the Eleventh Imam Hasan al-Askari
10 or 12 Rabī’ al-Thānī, death of Fatimah bint Musa
11 of Rabī’ al-Thānī, death of Abdul-Qadir Gilani, the Sufi sheikh who is believed to be the "saint of saints"
15 of Rabi' al-Thani, death of Habib Abu Bakr al-Haddad
27 of Rabi' al-Thani, death of Ahmad Sirhindi
28 or 29 of Rabī’ al-Thānī, death of ibn Arabi, the great philosopher from Spain who died and rests in Damascus, Syria.[4]

References

Youssof, R. (1890). Dictionnaire portatif turc-français de la langue usuelle en caractères latins et turcs. Constantinople. p. 479.
Young, George (1905). Corps de droit ottoman; recueil des codes, lois, règlements, ordonnances et actes les plus importants du droit intérieur, et d'études sur le droit coutumier de l'Empire ottoman (in French). 1. Clarendon Press. p. xiv.
Umm al-Qura calendar of Saudi Arabia
"Sheikh Muhyiddin Ibn Al-Arabi (RA) - URS 22 Rabi al-Thani". LoveMeditation-Naqshbandi | Maida Vale Naqshbandi Rabbani Group | Islamic History | Sufi Events | Sufi Saints History. 29 January 2016.

External links

Islamic-Western Calendar Converter (Based on the Arithmetical or Tabular Calendar)

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[1] Youssof, R. (1890). Dictionnaire portatif turc-français de la langue usuelle en caractères latins et turcs. Constantinople. p. 479.

[2] Young, George (1905). Corps de droit ottoman; recueil des codes, lois, règlements, ordonnances et actes les plus importants du droit intérieur, et d'études sur le droit coutumier de l'Empire ottoman (in French). 1. Clarendon Press. p. xiv.

[3] Umm al-Qura calendar of Saudi Arabia

[4] "Sheikh Muhyiddin Ibn Al-Arabi (RA) - URS 22 Rabi al-Thani". LoveMeditation-Naqshbandi | Maida Vale Naqshbandi Rabbani Group | Islamic History | Sufi Events | Sufi Saints History. 29 January 2016.