Islam is at the heart of an emerging global anti-hegemonic culture that combines diasporic and local cultural elements, and blends Arab, Islamic, black and Hispanic factors to generate "a revolutionary black, Asian and Hispanic globalization, with its own dynamic counter-modernity constructed in order to fight global imperialism. (say what!)
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
synchronicity
It seems like every few years there are interesting and meaningful connections between days on the Islamic calendar and days on the Gregorian calendar. Unfortunately, it seems like this year, Eid al-Fitr may fall on 9/11. Ouch.
Within the last ten or twenty years, what would some of the other "interesting and meaningful connections between days on the Islamic calendar and days on the Gregorian calendar" be?
Within the last ten or twenty years, what would some of the other "interesting and meaningful connections between days on the Islamic calendar and days on the Gregorian calendar" be?
In general, the Islamic/Gregorian calendars shift 11 days every year so pick an Islamic date and a Gregorian one and they'll be on a 36 year cycle of coming closer together and then farther apart.
You are likely to find a closer pattern with Jewish holidays since it is a lunar calendar (e.g. Yom Kippur and Ashura)
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Within the last ten or twenty years, what would some of the other "interesting and meaningful connections between days on the Islamic calendar and days on the Gregorian calendar" be?
Within the last ten or twenty years, what would some of the other "interesting and meaningful connections between days on the Islamic calendar and days on the Gregorian calendar" be?
Here is one connection... but technically it is between the Islamic calendar and the Jewish one.
http://planetgrenada.blogspot.com/2005/10/happy-new-year.html
In general, the Islamic/Gregorian calendars shift 11 days every year so pick an Islamic date and a Gregorian one and they'll be on a 36 year cycle of coming closer together and then farther apart.
You are likely to find a closer pattern with Jewish holidays since it is a lunar calendar (e.g. Yom Kippur and Ashura)
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