Literature on the Islamic Calendar (chronological)
- Sylvestre de Sacy, A.I., Mémoire sur divers événemens de lhistoire des Arabes avant Mahomet, Mémoires
de littérature, tirés des registres de lAcadémie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 48 (1808),
484-762.
- Navoni, Giovanni-Battista, Rouz-namé, ou calendrier perpétuel des Turcs, avec les
remarques et des exemples sur la manière de compter les lunaisons, et avec des tables pour trouver la correspondance des
dates entre lère turque et lère vulgaire, Fundgruben des Orients, 4 (1814), 38-67, 127-153 &
253-277 reprinted in F. Sezgin, Calendars and Chronology in the Islamic World: Texts and Studies I (Frankfurt am Main:
Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1998 [= Publications of
the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy, nr. 64]), pp. 1-92.
- Ideler, Christian Ludwig, Ueber die Vergleichung der muhammedanischen und christlichen Zeitrechnung, Fundgruben des
Orients, 4 (1814), 299-308 reprinted in F. Sezgin, Calendars and Chronology in the Islamic World: Texts
and Studies I (Frankfurt am Main:Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe
University, 1998 [= Publications of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, Islamic Mathematics and
Astronomy, nr. 64]), pp. 93-102.
- Ideler, Christian Ludwig, Ueber die Zeitrechnung der Araber, Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften
in Berlin 1812/13 (Berlin, 1816), Historisch-philologische Klasse, 97-120
[Akademiebibliothek
link] reprinted in F. Sezgin, Calendars and Chronology in the Islamic World: Texts and Studies I (Frankfurt am
Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1998 [= Publications of the
Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy, nr. 64]), pp. 103-126.
- Ideler, Christian Ludwig, Ueber die Zeitrechnung der Perser, Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in
Berlin 1814/15 (Berlin: ???, 1818), Historisch-philologische Klasse, 259-289
[Akademiebibliothek
link] reprinted in F. Sezgin, Calendars and Chronology in the Islamic World: Texts and Studies I (Frankfurt am
Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University 1998 [= Publications of the
Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy, nr. 64]), pp. 127-157.
- Ideler, Christian Ludwig, Ueber die bei den morgenländischen Völkern gebräuchlichen Formen des julianischen Jahrs,
Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin 1816/17 (Berlin:
???, 1819), Historisch-philologische Klasse, 215-262
[Akademiebibliothek
link] reprinted in F. Sezgin, Calendars and Chronology in the Islamic World: Texts and Studies I (Frankfurt am
Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1998 [= Publications of the
Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy, nr. 64]), pp. 159-206.
- von Zach, Franz Xaver Freiherr, Ueber den Kalender der Türken,
Hertha: Zeitschrift für Erd-, Völker- und
Staatenkunde, 2 (1825), 64-69 reprinted in F. Sezgin, Calendars and Chronology in the Islamic World: Texts and
Studies I (Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1998 [=
Publications of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy, nr. 64]),
pp. 234-239.
- Sedillot, J.-J., Traité des instruments astronomiques des arabes [...] (Paris: ???,
1834/35).
- Caussin de Perceval, Armand-Pierre, Essai sur lhistoire des arabes avant lislamisme, pendant lepoque de Mahomet, et
jusquà la réduction de toutes les tribus sous la loi musulmane (Paris: Firmin Didot frères, 1847/48), 3 vols.
[cf. in particular vol. 1, pp. 283-???].
- Caussin de Perceval, Armand-Pierre, Mémoire sur le calendrier arabe avant lislamisme, Journal asiatique, ou recueil
de mémoires, dextraits et de notices relatifs à lhistoire, à la philosophie, aux langues et à la littérature des
peuples orientaux, sér. 4, 1 (1843), 342-379 [Gallica link] English translation [by L. Nobiron], Notes on the Arab Calendar Before Islam,
Islamic Culture, 21 (1947), 135-153.
- Mahmoud Pacha al-Falaki [= Maḥmūd Effendī], Mémoire sur le calendrier arabe avant lislamisme, et sur la
naissance et lâge du prophète Mohammad, Journal asiatique, ou recueil de mémoires, dextraits et de notices
relatifs à lhistoire, à la philosophie, aux langues et à la littérature des peuples orientaux, sér. 5,
11 (1858), 109-192 [Gallica link] reprinted in
Mémoires couronnés et mémoires des savants étrangers, publiées par lAcadémie royale des sciences, des
lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 30 (1861), Classe des lettres, 1-45, and in F. Sezgin, Calendars and Chronology in the
Islamic World: Texts and Studies I (Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe
University, 1998 [= Publications of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy, nr. 64]),
pp. 251-336.
- Sprenger, Aloys, Ueber den Kalender der Araber vor Mohammad, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft,
13 (1859), 134-175 [MENAdoc link].
- Lane, Edward William, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the Years 1833, -34 and -35,
partly from Notes made during a Former Visit to that Country in the Years 1825, -26, -27 and -28 (London: John Murray, 1860), 5th ed.
reprinted in 2003 by The American University in Cairo Press (Cairo/New York) in particular chapters IX & XXIV-XXVI.
- Muir, William, The Life of Mahomet, with Introductory Chapters on the Original Sources for the Biographies of Mahomet,
and on the Pre-Islamite History of Arabia (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1861), 4 vols. many later editions.
- Sachau, C. Edward, The Chronology of Ancient Nations: An English Version of the Arabic Text of the Athâr-ul-Bâkiya
of Albîrûnî, or Vestiges of the Past, Collected and Reduced to Writing by the Author in AH 390-1, AD 1000
(London: William H. Allen & Co., 1879) [Gallica
link / MENAdoc link] reprinted by
Minerva Verlag (Frankfurt am Main, 1984) and in F. Sezgin, Publications of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science:
Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy, Volume 31 (Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann
Wolfgang Goethe University, 1998).
- Mukhtar Pasha, Ghazi Ahmed, Islah at-taqwim (Cairo: ???, 1890) [text in
Turkish with an Arabic translation by Sefiq Bay Mansur Yegen] also published in a French translation [by Osman Nouri
Efendi] as La réforme du calendrier (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1893) [Internet Archive link].
- Kropf, Lewis, L. & Lane-Poole, Stanley, The Mohammadan Calendar, The English Historical Review, 13 (1898),
700-703 [JSTOR link].
- Hadji Khan, With the Pilgrims to Mecca: The Great Pilgrimage of A.H. 1319; A.D. 1902 (London/New York: John
Lane, 1905) [Internet Archive link / other link].
- Ginzel, Friedrich Karl, Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie (Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichssche
Buchhandlung, 1906), vol. 1, pp. 238-274 reprinted in F. Sezgin, Calendars and Chronology in the Islamic
World: Texts and Studies II (Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang
Goethe University, 1998 [= Publications of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, Islamic Mathematics and
Astronomy, nr. 65]), pp. 113-150.
- Juynboll, Theodoor Willem, Handleiding tot de kennis van de Mohammedaansche wet, volgens de leer der Sjâfiitische school
(Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1930), 4th ed.
- Hartner, Willy, Zamān, in: Enzyklopädie des Islam (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1934), vol. 4, pp. 1307-1310
reprinted in Oriens-Occidens: Ausgewählte Schriften zur Wissenschafts- und Kulturgeschichte: Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag
(Hildeheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1968), pp. 260-263.
- Taqizadeh, Sayyid Hasan, Various Eras and Calendars used in the Countries of Islam, Bulletin of the School of Oriental
Studies, 9 (1937/39), 903-922 [JSTOR link];
10 (1940/42), 107-132 [JSTOR link] reprinted in
F. Sezgin, Calendars and Chronology in the Islamic World: Texts and Studies II (Frankfurt am Main: Institute for
the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1998 [= Publications of the Institute for
the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy, nr. 65]), pp. 347-392.
- Sauer, M., Mohammedanische Zeitrechnung, Festtage und Gebetszeiten,
Die Sterne, 34 (1958), 194-196.
- Mayr, Joachim, Das türkische Finanzjahr, Der Islam: ???, 36 (1961), 264-268
[de Gruyter link].
- Grohmann, Adolph, Mayr, Joachim & Till, Walter Curt, Arabische Chronologie (Leiden/Köln: E.J. Brill, 1966
[= Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abteilung I, Ergänzungsband II, Halbband I).
- Grunebaum, Gustave E. von, Muhammadan Festivals (London/Totowa:
Curzon Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 1976), 2nd ed.
- Séguy, Marie-Rose (ed.), The Miraculous Journey of Mohammet: Mirâj Nâmeh (New York: George Braziller, 1977).
- Ilyas, Mohammad, Progress towards a Schematic World Hijrī Calendar, Hamdard Islamicus:
Quarterly Journal of the Hamdard Foundation (Pakistan), 7
(1984), nr. 3, 61-83.
- Ilyas, Mohammad, A Modern Guide to Astronomical Calculations of Islamic Calendar, Times & Qibla (Kuala Lumpur: Berita Publishing, 1984).
- Shamsi, Fazal Ahmad, The Date of Hijrah, Islamic Studies: ???, 23
(1984), 189-224 [JSTOR link] & 289-323 [JSTOR link].
- Shamsi, Fazal Ahmad, The ‛Year in the Qurān, Islamic Studies: ???,
25 (1986), 305-324 [JSTOR link].
- Shamsi, Fazal Ahmad, The Meaning of Nasī: An Interpretation of Verse 9:37, Islamic Studies:
???, 26 (1987), 143-164 [JSTOR link].
- Lindner, Johannes, Transformation von Daten der muslimischen in die christliche Zeitrechnung und umgekehrt mit programmierbaren
elektronischen Taschenrechern, Die Welt des Islams, 29 (1989), 30-40 (*).
- Ilyas, Mohammad, Islamic Schematic Calendar: A Note on Some Useful Compendia, Islamic Studies:
???, 31 (1992), 487-493 [JSTOR link].
- Ansari, Shahabuddin, Towards a Unified World Islamic Calendar, Hamdard Islamicus: Quarterly Journal of Studies and
Research in Islam, 17 (1994), nr. 4, 99-123.
- Lindner, Johannes, Die türkischen Finanz-(Maliye-)Jahre ab 1917, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen
Gesellschaft, 144 (1994), 56-59 [MENAdoc link].
- McNaughton, David L., Eclipses during Ramadhan, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 105 (1995), 160
[ADS link].
- McNaughton, David L., A Note on A Unified World Islamic Calendar, Hamdard Islamicus: Quarterly Journal of Studies and
Research in Islam, 18 (1995), nr. 4, 123-125.
- McNaughton, David L., Eclipses during Ramadān, Hamdard Islamicus: Quarterly Journal of Studies and Research in Islam,
19 (1996), nr. 1, 81-86.
- Ansari, Shahabuddin, Interchanging of Christian and Hijrah Dates, Hamdard Islamicus: Quarterly Journal of Studies and
Research in Islam, 19 (1996), nr. 2, 89-98.
- Ilyas, Mohammad, Astronomy of Islamic Calender (Kuala Lumpur: A.S. Noordeen, 1997) [check].
- Ilyas, Mohammad, Calendars in Islam, in: H. Selin (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and
Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997), pp. 171-173.
- McNaughton, David L., A Universal Islamic Calendar, Hamdard Islamicus: Quarterly Journal of Studies and Research in Islam,
20 (1997), nr. 1, 77-85.
- Dallal, Ahmad, Calendar, in: J.D. McAuliffe (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Qurān (Leiden/Boston/Köln: Brill, 2001),
vol. 1, pp. 272-273.
- Jones, Alan, The Dotting of a Script and the Dating of an Era: The Strange Neglect of PERF 558, Islamic Culture:
???, 72 (1998), 95-103
[Islamic Awareness link].
- Ansari, Shahabuddin, A Note on A Universal Islamic Calendar, Hamdard Islamicus: Quarterly Journal of Studies and Research
in Islam, 23 (2000), nr. 1, 71-76.
- Schimmel, Annemarie Brigitte, Das islamische Jahr: Zeiten und Feste (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2001 [= Becksche Reihe,
nr. 1441]) Dutch translation [by Carolijn Visschers], Het islamitische jaar: Kalender en feesten (Baarn: Ten
Have, 2003).
- Rizvi, Saiyid Samd Husain, Al-Bīrūnīs International Lunar Calendar, Hamdard Islamicus: Quarterly
Journal of Studies and Research in Islam, 29 (2006), nr. 3, 83-94.
- Hanne, Eric, Dates and Calendars, in: J.W. Meri (ed.), Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (New
York/Abingdon: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2006 [= Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, vol. 13]),
vol. I, pp. 195-197.
- Shoshan, Boaz, Festivals and Celebrations, in: J.W. Meri (ed.), Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (New
York/Abingdon: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2006 [= Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, vol. 13]),
vol. I, pp. 254-257.
- Cajee, Naeel, Circular Calculus and Elliptical Realities: The Standardization of the Islamic Lunar Calendar in the United
States, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 31 (2011), 441-462 [doi link].
- Blake, Stephen P., Time in Early Modern Islam: Calendar, Ceremony, and Chronology in the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman Empires
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
- Stowasser, Barbara Freyer, The Day Begins at Sunset: Perceptions of Time in the Islamic World (London/New York: I.B. Tauris
& Co., 2014).
- Wishnitzer, Avner, Reading Clocks, Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Society (Chicago/London: University of Chicago
Press, 2015).
Conversion Tables or Algorithms based on the Tabular Islamic Calendar
Type I [Intercalary years 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29]
- Greaves, John, Epochæ Celebriores, Astronomis, Historicis, Chronologis, Chataiorum, Syro-Græcorum, Arabum, Persarum,
Chorasmiorum, usitatæ ex traditione Ulug Beigi, Indiæ citra extráque Gangem Principis (London: James Flesher, 1650)
[Google Books link] [2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15,
18, 21, 24, 26 & 29; epoch = 15 July 622 CE].
- Pococke, Edward,
- Beverage, William, Institutionum chronologicarum libri II. Unà cum totidem arithmetices chronologicæ libellis. Editio
altera, priori emendatior (London: Samuel Roycroft, 1705), pp. 70-85, 159-160 & 177-179 epoch: 15/16 July 622 CE;
intercalary years: 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29 [Internet Archive link].
- Wolff, Christian, Elementa Matheseos Universæ: Tomus Quartus, qui Geographiam cum Hydrographia, Chronologiam, Gnomonicam,
Pyrotechniam, Architecturam Militarem atque Civilem complectitur. Editio nova; priori multo auctior et correctior
(Geneva: Pellissari & Soc, 1738), pp. 103, 117 & 146-150 [Internet
Archive link] [epoch: 16 July 622; astronomers adopt 15 July].
- Ciccolini, Lodovico, Calendrier des turcs, Correspondance astronomique, géographique, hydrographique et statistique,
11 (1824), 552-567 [Google books]
[epoch = 16 July 622].
- von Littrow, Joseph Johann, Calendariographie, oder Anleitung, alle Arten Kalender zu verfertigen (Vienna: J.G. Heubner,
1828), pp. 88-112 [Google books]
[epoch = 16 July 622].
- von Zach, Franz Xaver Freiherr, Calendrier des turcs, Correspondance astronomique, géographique, hydrographique et
statistique, 12 (1825), 3-53 [Google books]
[epoch = 16 July 622; astronomers adopt 15 July 622].
- Ciccolini, Lodovico, Sur la conversion de lère de lhégire, Correspondance astronomique, géographique,
hydrographique et statistique, 12 (1825), 348-362 [Google books].
- Kulik, Jakob Philipp, Der tausendjährige Kalender: Ein nützliches Handbuch für Historiographen, Diplomatiker, Archivare,
Richter, Advokaten, Landgeistliche, und überhaupt für Jene, welche die in den alten Manuskripten, Geschichtbüchern, und
Urkunden vorkommenden chronologischen Daten zu bestimmen haben. Zweite verbesserte, und mit einem Kalender der Juden und Türken
vermehrte Auflage (Prague: Kronberger und Weber, 1834) [E-RARA link]
table: 0 AH to 1800 AH; epoch: ?? July 622 CE; intercalary years: 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29
first published in 1831.
- Sédillot, Louis Pierre Eugène Amélie, Manuel de chronologie universelle, comprenant des notions préliminaires sur la
chronologie mathématique et technique, un tableau synchronique de lhistoire universelle, des tables chronologiques et
généalogiques pour les états anciens et modernes (Paris: ???,
18??), vol. 1, pp. 11-12 &
21; vol. 2,
pp. 340-??? intercalary years: 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29.
- Biot, Eduard, Résumé de chronologie astronomique, Mémoires de lAcadémie des Sciences de lInstitut
de France, 22 (1850), 209-523 [in particular pp. 454-476] [Gallica link]
[epoch: 15 July 622 CE; provides correction for when the 16th year is intercalary].
Type II [Intercalary years 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29]
- Christmann, Jacob, Muhamedis Alfragani arabis chronologica et astronomica elementa, e Palatinæ bibliothecæ veteribus
libris versa, expleta, & scholiis expolita. Additus est commentarius, qui rationem calendarii Romani, Ægyptiaci, Arabici,
Persici, Syriaci & Hebræi explicat, & intervalla præcipuarum ærarum ita declarat, ut ab Olympiadibus & Urbe
condita usque ad nostram memoriam, per annos Nabonasari, Iulij Cæsaris & Christi, certa temporum series constare possit
(Frankfurt am Main: Andreae Wecheli heredes, Claudium Marnium & Ioann. Aubrium, 1590), pp. 7-16 & 194-211
[E-RARA link] [epoch: 16 July 622 CE; astronomers adopt
15 July 622 CE] reprinted in 1618.
- Mulerius, Nicolaus, Iudæorum Annus Lunæ-Solaris et Turc-Arabum Annus merê Lunaris: Recens uterque è suis fontibus deductus,
& cum anno Romano facili methodo connexus (Groningen: Johannes Sassius, 1630), preface & pp. 69-79
[E-RARA link / Internet Archive link] [epoch: 16 July 622 CE].
- lArt de vérifier les dates des faits historiques, des chartes, des
chroniques et autres anciens monumens, depuis la naissance de Notre-Seigneur, par le moyen dune table chronologique, où lon
trouve les Olympiades, les années de Jésus-Christ, des Eres dAlexandrie & de Constantinople, de lEre de Séleucides,
de lEre Césaréenne dAntioche, de lEre dEspagne, de lEre des Martyrs, de lHégire, les Indictions,
le Cycle Pascal, les Cycles Solaire & Lunaire, le Terme Pascal, les Pâques de chaque année & les Epactes. Avec deux calendriers
perpétuels, la chronologie historique des Conciles, des Papes, des quatre Patriarches dOrient, des Empereurs Romains, Grecs, des Califes,
des Rois des Parthes, des Perses, des Huns, des Vandales, des Goths, des Lombards, des Bulgares, de Jérusalem, de Chypre, des Princes
dAntioche, des Comptes de Tripoli, des Sultans dIconium, dAlep, de Damas, des Empereurs Ottomans, des Schahs de Perse, des
Grands-Maîtres de Malte, du Temple, de lOrdre Teutonique, des Empereurs François, Allemands, des six Electeurs Laiques de lEmpire,
des Rois de Hongrie, de Pologne, de Danemarck, de Suede, des Czars de Russie, des Rois de France, des grands Vassaux de cette Couronne, des Rois
dAngleterre, dEcosse, dEspagne, de Portugal, des Souverains dItalie, &c. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée
& augmentée, par un religieux Bénédictin de la Congrégation de S. Maur (Paris: G. Desprez, 1770),
pp. xviii-xix, 13-38 & 392 [Bizkaia link]
[intercalary years: 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29; epoch:16 July 622 CE
astronomers adopt 15 July].
- Marsden, William, On the Era of the Mahometans, called the Hejerà, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of
London, 78 (1788), 414-432 [JSTOR link] [epoch =
16 July 622].
- Warren, John, Kala Sankalita: A Collection of Memoirs on the Various Modes according to which the Nations of the Southern
Parts of India divide Time, to which are added, Three General Tables, wherein may be found by mere inspection the Beginning,
Character, and Roots of the Tamul, Tellinga, and Mahommedan Civil Years, concurring, viz. the two former with the European
Years of the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, and the latter with those from A.D. 622 (A.H. 1) to 1900
(Madras: College Press, 1825) [Google Books
link] [epoch: 15/16 July 622 CE; intercalary years: 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29]
[check].
- Prinsep, James, Useful Tables, forming an Appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society. Part the Second: Chronological and
Genealogical Tables of Ancient and Modern India, including a Chronological Table of the Principal Events of British Connection with
India (Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1836), pp. 13-14 & 56-64 [Internet Archive link] table: 1 AH to 1318 AH; epoch: 16 July 622 CE; intercalary years:
2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29.
- Francoeur, Louis-Benjamin, Sur le calendrier des mahométans, Connaissance des Temps ou des Mouvements Célestes,
à lusage des astronomes et des navigateurs, pour lan 1844 (Paris: Bachelier, 1841), Additions, pp. 111-122
[Gallica link] [epoch: 16 July 622 CE].
- Wüstenfeld, Ferdinand, Vergleichungs-Tabellen der Muhammedanischen und Christlichen Zeitrechnung, nach dem ersten Tage jedes
Muhammedanischen Monats berechnet (Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1854) [Google Books link] tables for 1 AH to 1300 AH
reprinted with errata in 1903 [Internet Archive link].
- Patell, Cowasjee Sorabjee, Chronology, containing Corresponding Dates of the Different Eras used by Christians, Jews, Greeks, Hindus,
Mohamedans, Parsees, Chinese, Japanese, &c. (London: Trübner and Co., 1866), pp. 34-35, 50-53, 60, 78 & General Table I
[Google Books link] [tables: 1 AH to 1421 AH; epoch:
16 July 622 CE [astronomers 15 July 622 CE]; intercalary years: 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29].
- Cunningham, Alexander, Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates (Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1883),
pp. 66-70 & 118-134 epoch: 16 July 622 CE; intercalary years: 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29
[Internet Archive link].
- Mahler, Eduard, Fortsetzung der Wüstenfeldschen Vergleichungs-Tabellen der Muhammedanischen und Christlichen Zeitrechnung (von
1300 bis 1500 der Hedschra) (Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1887) [Internet Archive link [2nd part]].
- Burnaby, Sherrad Beaumont, Elements of the Jewish and Muhammadan Calendars with Rules and Tables and Explanatory Notes on the Julian and
Gregorian Calendars (London: George Bell & Son, 1901) [Internet Archive link] [epoch: 16 July, 622].
- Mahler, Eduard, Wüstenfeld-Mahlersche Vergleichungs-Tabellen der mohammedanischen und christlichen Zeitrechnung: Zweite
Auflage. Im Auftrage der DMG. neu redigiert sowie mit einem Anhange: Das türkische Sonnenjahr erweitert und auf deren Kosten
herausgegeben (Leipzig: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 1926) [table: 1 AH to 1500 AH; epoch: 16 July
622 CE; intercalary years: 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29] [Internet Archive
link].
- Cappelli, Adriano, Cronologia, Cronografia e Calendario Perpetuo dal principio dellÊra Cristiana ai giorni nostri: Tavole
cronologico-sincrone e quadri sinottici per verificare le date storiche. Seconda edizione interamente rifatta ed ampliata (Milan: Ulrico
Hoepli, 1930), pp. 22 & 169-176 [table: 1 to 1421 AH; intercalary years: 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29; epoch:
16 July 622].
- Haig, Wolseley, Comparative Tables of Muhammadan and Christian Dates: Enabling One to Find the Exact Equivalent of any Day in
any Month from the Beginning of the Muhammedan Era (London: Luzac and Co., 1932) [tables: 1 AH to 1421 AH; epoch:
16 July 622 CE; intercalary years: 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29].
- Zinner, Ernst, Die Tafeln von Toledo (Tabulae Toletanae), Osiris, 1 (1936), 747-774
[JSTOR link].
- Ocaña Jiménez, Manuel, Tablas de conversión de datas islámicas y cristianas y viceversa: Fundamentadas en nuevas fórmulas
de coordinación y compulsa (Madrid/Granada: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1946)
[Internet Archive link] from 1 AH to
1650 AH; intercalary years 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29; epoch 16 July 622 CE an updated
edition was published as: Nuevas tablas de conversión de datas islámicas y cristianas y viceversa: Estructuradas para
concordar, día por día, años completos (Madrid: Instituto Hispano-árabe de Cultura, 1981).
- Unat, Faik Reşit, Hicrî Tarihleri Milâdî Tarihe çevirme Kılavuzu (Ankara: Maarif Matbaası, 1943)
[Internet Archive link of the 6th (1988) edition] [epoch = 16 July 622; based on
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622 CE; intercalary years: 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26 & 29 the original Russian edition was published in 1976.
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Tabularum, posterior præcepta pro usu Tabularum Astronomicarum, et ipsas Tabulas Astronomicas CII. continet (Bologna:
Haeredis Victorij Benatij, 1665), vol. 2, p. 9 & tab. 20-21 [epoch: 16 July 622 CE; intercalary years:
2, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 19, 21, 24, 27 & 29 [or 30]].
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India, on a Scientific and Permanent Basis, grounded on an Analytical Review of the Weights, Measures, and Coins of India,
and their Relative Quantities with respect to such as subsist at Present, or have hitherto subsisted in all Past Ages
throughout the World: In Connexion with which, the Measures of Time, on Elementary Principles of Technical Chronology of
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portant un calendrier perpétuel avec correspondance musulmane et chrétienne: Traduction et interprétation,
Journal asiatique, ou recueil de mémoires, dextraits et de notices relatifs à lhistoire, à la philosphie, aux
langues et à la littérature des peuples orientaux, série 9, 1 (1893), 5-76 & 185-231
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ad motum luminarium cœlestium, tempora & annos distinguentium, secundùm characteres Chronologicos contextum, trecentis
ferê Eclipsibus annotatis confirmatum, & deductum usq[uam] nostra tempora. Cui præmissa est Isagoge Chronologica, in
quâ cùm Tempus Astronomicum de numerandis motibus Luminarium cœlestium, & eorundem Eclipsibus; tum diversæ
diversorum in omnibus Epochis annorum quantitates & formæ dilucidè explicantur, characteres infallibiles ostenduntur,
& quid in unaquaq[ue] Epocha verum falsumvé sic, ex veris fundamentis Chronologicis apertè demonstratur. Editio altera &
auctior & correctior (Frankfurt an der Oder: Johannes Thiem, 1620), pp. 90-93 epoch: 15 July 622 CE;
intercalary years: 2, 5, 8, 11, 13, 16, 19, 21, 24, 27 & 29 [E-RARA link].
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[...] (Ulm: Jonas Saurius, 1627), pp. 47-49 & table 39 [???
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qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de lorient (Paris: Compagnie des Libraires, 1697), pp. 444-445 & 857
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usd in Chronology, by which that Useful Science may easily be attained to (London:
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& 268 [Bizkaia link] [epoch = 16 July 622].
- Langlet du Dufresnoy, Nicolas, Chronological Tables of Universal History, Sacred and Profane, Ecclesiastical and Civil; from
the Creation of the World, to the Year One thousand Seven hundred and Forty-three. With a Preliminary Discourse on the Short Method
of Studying History; and a Catalogue of Books necessary for that Purpose; with some Remarks on them (London: A. Millar
[etc.], 1762), vol. 1, pp. xci-xciii & 305-320 [ECCO link].
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account of the most remarkable epochs, aeras and periods, the dates and extent of which are ascertained. II. A chronological history,
which exhibits a connected view of the time, mode, and circumstances of the origin, progress, decline, and fall of every considerable
kingdom, from the earliest period to the present. III. A list of several eclipses before the Christian aera, observed by astronomers,
or recorded by historians and of all eclipses from A.D. 1, to A.D. 1900 [...] IV. A chronological list of councils [...]
V. Chronological tables and charts from B.C. 2300 to A.D. 1784, adapted to a scale and ascertaining the duration of the
lives and reigns of the most eminent personages in all ages. VI. A list of remarkable events and occurrences relating to every kingdom
and nation [...] with the dates of many celestial phaenomena. VII. Supplemental tables [...] VIII. A copious biographical index
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à la littérature des peuples orientaux, sér. 4, 10 (1847), 249-258
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and Chronology in the Islamic World: Texts and Studies I (Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the
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Astronomers, Chronologers, Historians, Diplomatists, Political and Consular Agents, Merchants, Travellers and Sojourners in the East,
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part, on the Jewish calendar, was published in 1863.
- Brown, Charles Philip, Carnatic Chronology: The Hindu and Mahomedan Methods of Reckoning Time Explained. With Essays on the Systems,
Symbols used for Numerals, a New Titular Method of Memory, Historical Records, and Other Subjects (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1863)
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documents du moyen age (Paris: Librairie Victor Palmé, 1889), cols. 41-46 [Gallica
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[Internet Archive link].
- Sewell, Robert, Dīksit, Śankara Bālakrisna & Schram, Robert Gustav, The Indian Calendar with Tables for the Conversion
of Hindu and Muhammadan into A.D. Dates, and vice versâ, with Tables of Eclipses visible in India (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.,
1896) [Internet Archive link] [2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15/16, 18,
21, 24, 26 & 29, or, according to Thomas Best Jervis, 2, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 19, 21, 24, 27 & 29].
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fois daprès le manuscrit Add. 7197 du Musée Britannique (Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, 1910 [=
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Verification of Tithis, Nakshatras, Horoscopes and other Indian Time-Records, B.C. 1 to A.D. 2000 (Madras: Grant & Co.,
1911).
- Svami-Kunnu Pillai, Lewis Dominic, An Indian Ephemeris, A.D. 1800 to A.D. 2000; Showing, for Every Day in the Year for Two
Hundred Years the Ending Moments of Tithis and Nakshatras with the English, Tamil, Malayalam and Muhammadan Equivalents; and for Every Ten
Days, from A.D. 1800 to A.D. 2000, the Geocentric Longitudes of Planets, mainly according to the Sûrya Siddhânta; also
the Years in Different Eras, A.D., Hijra, Śaka, Vikrama, Kaliyuga, Kollam, etc., and Tables for Ascertaining Local Time, with Full
Instructions for casting Lagna & Horoscopes, and Tables of Hindu Fasts, Feasts and Festivals, and Solar and Lunar Eclipses
(Madras: Government Press, 1915).
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according to the Principal Systems current in India, with their English Equivalents, also the Ending Moments of Tithis and Nakshatras and
the Years in different Eras, A.D., Hijra, Saka, Vikrama, Kaliyuga, Kollam, etc., with a Perpetual Planetary Almanac and other Auxiliary
Tables (Madras: Government Press, 1922), 6 vols.
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Die Festrechnung des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, Astronomische Nachrichten, 261 (1937), 461-524 [nr. 6264]
[ADS link] tables for types I & II.
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- Cattenoz, Henri Georges, Tables de concordance des ères chrétienne et hégirienne (???: ???, 1945) reprinted by
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- Grumel, Victor, Traité détudes Byzantines: I. La chronologie (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1958
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103-123 [JSTOR link] [intercalary years according to Yahya/al-Khwārizmī:
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- Gossler, Marcus, Basisformeln zur programmierten Umrechnung einiger astronomischer Kalendertypen, Astronomische
Nachrichten, 301 (1980), 191-194 [ADS link]
algorithms for types I & II.
- Ubieto Artur, Antonio-Paulo, Tablas teóricas de equivalencia diaria entre los calendarios islámico y cristiano / Theoretical
Tables of Daily Equivalence between the Islamic and Christian Calendars (Zaragoza: Anubar, 1984), 2 vols. tables for
1 AH to 1500 AH.
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- Birashk, Ahmad, A Comparative Calendar of the Iranian, Muslim Lunar, and Christian Eras for Three Thousand Years (1260 B.H.
2000 A.H. / 639 B.C. 2621 A.D.) (Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 1993).
- Freeman-Grenville, Greville Stewart Parker, The Islamic and Christian Calendars A.D. 622-2222 (A.H. 1-1650):
A Complete Guide for Converting Christian and Islamic Dates and Dates of Festivals (Reading: Garnet Publications, 1995),
3rd. ed.
- Neugebauer, Otto E. works Abu Shaker.
- Ansari, Shahabuddin & Jinnah, M.M., Interchanging Muslim and Christian Era Dates: A Handbook of Precisely Synchronizing Hijrah
Era dates with the Christian Era Dates and vice verca from 60 B.H. to 2100 A.H. (564 A.D. to 2659 A.D.), together with
to Ascertain the Day of the Week of any pre-Hijrah, post-Hijrah, Julian and Gregorian Calendar Dates (Kanpur/Delhi: Islam Research
Centre/B.R. Publ. Co., 2007).
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- Ilyas, Muhammad, Astronomy of Islamic Times for the Twenty-First Century (London/New York: Mansell Publ., 1988).
- Reingold, Edward M. & Dershowitz, Nachum, Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2001), chapter 6.
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- Īd/Īd al-Adhā/Īd al-Fitr, vol. 3 (1971), pp. 1007-1008 [Eugen Mittwoch].
- Mirādj, vol. 7 (1993), pp. 97-105 [various authors].
- Ramaḍān, vol. 8 (1995), pp. 417-418 [Martin M. Plessner].
- Sawm, vol. 9 (1997), pp. 94-95 [Cornelis Christiaan Berg].
- Tarīkh, vol. 10 (2000), pp. 257-271 [François C. de Blois & Benno van Dalen].