Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

The Arabic term Ramadan connotes intense heat. It seems that in pre-Islamic Arabia, Ramadan was the name of a scorching hot summer month. In the Islamic calendar, however, the timing of Ramadan varies ...

Ramadan, a holy month of fasting ... thread of light becomes distinguishable from the dark thread of night at dawn." The fast can be broken after an evening prayer with a meal called ifṭār ...

Traditionally, it's the sighting of the first crescent moon after the new moon that begins every new month in the Islamic Hijri calendar. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the month of Ramadan and the ...