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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mo·ham·med·an cal·en·dar. The Muslim calendar, a lunar calendar reckoning from the year of the hegira (hejira), 622 a. d. Thirty of its years constitute a cycle, of which the 2d, 5th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 29th are leap years, having 355 days; the others are common, having 354 days.
 Note: By the following tables any Mohammedan date may be changed into the Christian date, or vice versa, for the years 1900-1935 a. d.
 Months of the Mohammedan year.
 


   1 Muharram . . . .. 30
   2 Safar . . . . . . .. 29
   3 Rabia I . . . . . . 30
   4 Rabia II . . . .. 29
   5 Jumada I . . . .. 30
   6 Jumada II . . . . 29
   7 Rajab . . . . . . .. 30
   8 Shaban . . . . . . . 29
   9 Ramadan . . . . . . 30
  10 Shawwal . . . . . . 29
  11 Zu'lkadah . . . . 30
  12 Zu'lhijjah . . . 29*
  * in leap year, 30 days

 

  a. h. a. d.  a. h.   a. d.
  --------------------------------------------------------------
  1317   begins May 12, 1899        1336*  begins  Oct.17, 1917
  1318          May  1, 1900        1337           Oct. 7, 1918
  1319*         Apr.20, 1901        1338*          Sept.26,1919
  1320          Apr.10, 1902        1339           Sept.15,1920
  1321+         Mar.30, 1903        1340           Sept.4, 1921
  1322*         Mar.18, 1904        1341*          Aug.24, 1922
  1323          Mar. 8, 1905        1342           Aug.14, 1923
  1324          Feb.25, 1906        1343           Aug. 2, 1924
  1325*         Feb.14, 1907        1344*          July 22,1925
  1326          Feb. 4, 1908        1345           July 12,1926
  1327*         Jan.23, 1909        1346*          July 1, 1927
  1328          Jan.13, 1910        1347           June 20,1928
  1329          Jan. 2, 1911        1348           June 9, 1929
  1330*         Dec.22, 1911        1349*          May 29, 1930
  1331          Dec.11, 1912        1350           May 19, 1931
  1332          Nov.30, 1913        1351++         May  7, 1932
  1333*         Nov.19, 1914        1352*          Apr.26, 1933
  1334          Nov. 9, 1915        1353           Apr.16, 1934
  1335          Oct.28, 1916        1354           Apr. 5, 1935
  -----------------------------------------------------------------
  * Leap year  + First year of the 45th cycle
  ++ First year of the 46th cycle
  

    The following general rule for finding the date of commencement of any Mohammedan year has a maximum error of a day: Multiply 970,224 by the Mohammedan year, point off six decimal places, and add 621.5774. The whole number will be the year a. d., and the decimal multiplied by 365 will give the day of the year.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Mohammedan calendar
      n : the lunar calendar used by Muslims; dates from 622 AD (the
          year of the Hegira); the beginning of the Muslim year
          retrogresses through the solar year completing the cycle
          every 32 years [syn: Islamic calendar, Muhammadan
           calendar, Moslem calendar, Muslim calendar]