Happy Ramadan to all who observe it
Could someone Eli5 how a calendar that is less time than the time it takes the earth to travel around the sun used outside of a religious context?
I understand it’s connected to the stages of the moon and that the date for Ramadan moves in relation to the Gregorian calendar every year, was the ever a time when the Islamic calendar was used without the Gregorian calendar?
If so, how did that work logistically? I have a friend who was born during the month of Ramadan, and that year Ramandan was in the summer. Was it never an issue that the months don’t always corelate to seasons? Were seasons not really thing in the part of the world where the calendar was developed?
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Considering Islam is about a thousand years older than the Gregorian calendar i’d say it is safe to say that the Islamic calendar was used without the Gregorian one.
Lunar calendars are fairly common, especially for religious purposes and different methods have been used to keep them aligned with solar calendars that are important for farming and travel, or people have just let them drift relative to the seasons.
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