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| Safar | |
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 Medina, the city to which Muhammad migrated from Mecca (see Hijrah) | |
| Native name | صَفَر (Arabic) |
| Calendar | Islamic calendar |
| Month number | 2 |
| Number of days | 29 or 30 (depends on actual observation of the moon's crescent) |
| Significant days | Hijrah |
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| Months |
Safar (Arabic: صَفَر, romanized: Ṣafar), also spelt as Safer in Turkish,[1] is the second month of the lunar Islamic calendar. The Arabic word ṣafar means "travel, migration", corresponding to the pre-Islamic Arabian time period when Muslims fled the oppression of Quraish in Mecca and travelled (mostly barefooted) to Madina.
Most of the Islamic months were named according to ancient Sabean/Sabaic weather conditions; however, since the calendar is lunar, the months shift by about 11 days every solar year, meaning that these conditions do not necessarily correspond to the name of the month.
- ^ Yaşaroğlu, M.Kâmıl (2008). Safer - An article published in Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam (in Turkish). Vol. 35 (Resuliler - Sak). Istanbul: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi. pp. 450–451. ISBN 978-97-53-89457-9. Retrieved 18 January 2022.