5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

number on the line belonging to the month Muharram, i.e. the
number on the first line representing the first day of the year,
represents the number of the day counted from Sunday and it is the
first day of the month concerned. As an example, let us find the first
day of Ramadân, 1316: Sunday, the first day of that year, (as we
have already found in the first example above), is the first day of the
week. Therefore, on the second chart, the number on the
intersection of the column belonging to number 1 on the first line
and the horizontal line belonging to Ramadân is 6. Hence, the first
day of Ramadân is the sixth day from Sunday, i.e. Friday.
Finding the beginning of the hijrî year concurring with a
given Christian year:
A hijrî year begins approximately eleven days earlier in the
Christian year following the Christian year in which the previous
hijrî year began. Once every 33.58 hijrî years, which means
once every 32.58 Christian years, the beginning of hijrî year
coincides with one of the first days of January. Chart III shows
the hijrî years beginning in December. The hijrî year-beginnings
following these move yearly from this twelfth month backwards
to the first month, coinciding with each of the Christian months.
For finding the Christian month corresponding with the
beginning of any of such hijrî years which the chart does not
contain, the hijri year that is closest to it and which the chart
contains is found on the chart, and thereby the Christian year
next to this hijrî year on the chart. The difference between the
two hijrî years is added to the Christian year found on the chart.
For instance, let us find the Christian year coinciding with the
beginning of 1344 hijrî: 1344-1330=14; 1911+14=1925. It
coincides with July, which is below number 14 on Chart IV. The
Christian year with which a certain Christian month within a
certain hijrî year coincides, if this certain month is before the
month with which the beginning of the hijrî year coincides, is
one year ahead of the year found.
THEIR
FIRST
ULUĞ BEY’S CHARTS OF LUNAR MONTHS
CHART I
First figure of remainder
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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