01.01.2006 – 22.10.1384 – 01.12.1426
New Year around the world, not though in Afghanistan, where it will be celebrated 3 month later, 21st of March: Nowroz (new day), the first day of the afghan (Persian/Iranian) calendar.
The Persian calendar is, like the Gregorian calendar, a solar calendar, currently used only in Iran and Afghanistan. It‘s observation-based, rather than rule-based, which means that the beginning of each year is determined by astronomical observations from Teheran and Kabul. The Iranian calendar year begins on midnight between the two consecutive solar noons; in other words, the start of spring.
The origin of the era is not Jesus birth, but the Hijra – Mohammad’s emigration from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE. Therefore today is: 22nd Jady 1384 in Kabul
The Persian calendar shouldn’t t be confused with the Islamic calendar though, which is used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which to celebrate Islamic holy days. The Islamic calendar is a real lunar calendar having 12 month in a year with 354 days; that’s why Islamic holy days, although celebrated on fixed dates in their own calendar, usually shift 11 days earlier each successive solar year, of the Persian and Gregorian calendar.
In the Afghan history, the country has change between these different types of calendar several times. Since the fall of the Taliban – they prescribed the Islamic calendar – Afghanistan now uses again the Persian one. This and the fact that on international level we generally agree on the Gregorian, provokes a complexity that confuses not only me.
The Persian calendar is, like the Gregorian calendar, a solar calendar, currently used only in Iran and Afghanistan. It‘s observation-based, rather than rule-based, which means that the beginning of each year is determined by astronomical observations from Teheran and Kabul. The Iranian calendar year begins on midnight between the two consecutive solar noons; in other words, the start of spring.
The origin of the era is not Jesus birth, but the Hijra – Mohammad’s emigration from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE. Therefore today is: 22nd Jady 1384 in Kabul
The Persian calendar shouldn’t t be confused with the Islamic calendar though, which is used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which to celebrate Islamic holy days. The Islamic calendar is a real lunar calendar having 12 month in a year with 354 days; that’s why Islamic holy days, although celebrated on fixed dates in their own calendar, usually shift 11 days earlier each successive solar year, of the Persian and Gregorian calendar.
In the Afghan history, the country has change between these different types of calendar several times. Since the fall of the Taliban – they prescribed the Islamic calendar – Afghanistan now uses again the Persian one. This and the fact that on international level we generally agree on the Gregorian, provokes a complexity that confuses not only me.
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