are there 2 Eids? What’s the difference between the 2?

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are there 2 Eids? What’s the difference between the 2?

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Eid is Arabic for feast/festival (in English the word ‘festival’ means ‘feast of’ – it’s from the Latin ‘festivus’).

There are two Eids -Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha – one to celebrate the end of Ramadan (essentially a Muslim version of Lent), the other to celebrate Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac.

Shia Muslims also celebrate a third Eid.