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Jumada al-Thani
Ali won the Battle of Bassorah in this month
Native name	جُمَادَىٰ ٱلثَّانِي (Arabic)
Calendar	Islamic calendar
Month number	6
Number of days	29-30 (depends on actual observation of the moon's crescent)
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Jumada al-Thani (Arabic: جُمَادَىٰ ٱلثَّانِي, romanized: Jumādā ath-Thānī, lit. 'The second Jumada'), also known as Jumada al-Akhirah (Arabic: جُمَادَىٰ ٱلْآخِرَة, romanized: Jumādā al-ʾĀkhirah, lit. 'The final Jumada'), Jumada al-Akhir (Arabic: جُمَادَىٰ ٱلْآخِر, romanized: Jumādā al-ʾĀkhir), or Jumada II, is the sixth month of the Islamic calendar. The word Jumda (Arabic: جمد), from which the name of the month is derived, is used to denote dry, parched land, a land devoid of rain. Jumādā (Arabic: جُمَادَىٰ) may also be related to a verb meaning "to freeze", and another account relates that water would freeze in pre-Islamic Arabia during this time of year.

In Ottoman Turkish, the month was called Jèmāzìyyu-'l-ākhir, or G̃emazi-yèl-Aher. The month's Turkish abbreviation was jìm', and its Latin abbreviation was Djem. II. This is also spelled Cümadelahir or Cümâd-el-âhire. The modern Turkish spellings are Cemaziyelahir and Cemaziyelsani.

Timing

The Islamic calendar is a purely lunar calendar, and months begin when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. Since the Islamic lunar year is 11 to 12 days shorter than the solar year, Jumada al-Thani migrates throughout the seasons. The estimated start and end dates for Jumada al-Thani are as follows (based on the Umm al-Qura calendar of Saudi Arabia):

Islamic events

• 03 Jumada al-Thani, death of Muhammad's (SAW) daughter Fatimah in 11 AH.
• 03 Jumada al-Thani, death of Harun al-Rashid, the fifth Abbasid caliph.
• 10 Jumada al-Thani, victory of Ali in the Battle of Bassorah (Jamal).
• 13 Jumada al-Thani, death of Umm al-Banin (the mother of Abbas ibn Ali).
• 20 Jumada al-Thani, birth of Muhammad's (SAW) daughter Fatima Zahra.
• 22 Jumada al-Thani, death of Caliph Abu Bakr.
• In 8 AH, Dhat as-Salasil.
• 25 Jumada al-Thani of 564 AH, Saladin became amir of Egypt.

See also

• Jumada al-Awwal

References

1. ^ Redhouse, J.W. (1880). REDHOUSE'S TURKISH DICTIONARY. p. 513.
2. Youssof, R. (1890). Dictionnaire portatif turc-français de la langue usuelle en caractères latins et turcs. Constantinople. p. 177.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Alternate link at the National Library of France
3. Young, George (1905). Corps de droit ottoman; recueil des codes, lois, règlements, ordonnances et actes les plus importants du droit intérieur, et d'études sur le droit coutumier de l'Empire ottoman (in French). Vol. 1. Clarendon Press. p. 86.. Young states that "Djem. II 1281" is equivalent to "November 1864", which means he is referring to Cümadelahir, a.k.a. Jumada al-Thani.
4. Akiba, Jun. "From Kadı to Naib: Reorganization of the Ottoman Sharia Judiciary in the Tanzimat Period". In Imer, Colin; Keiko Kiyotaki (eds.). Frontiers of Ottoman Studies. Vol. 1. London/New York: I.B. Tauris. p. 43. ISBN 9781850436317. - CITED: p. 59 // Akiba states that "Cümadelahir 1281" is equivalent to "November 1864", which means he is referring to Cümadelahir, a.k.a. Jumada al-Thani.
5. Umm Al-Qura calendar of Saudi Arabia

External links

• Islamic-Western Calendar Converter (Based on the Arithmetical or Tabular Calendar)

• Months of the Islamic calendar
• Islamic terminology