IslamicCal(optionsopt)

Construct a new Islamic calendar object. This class encodes information about the civil Islamic calendar. The civil Islamic calendar is a tabular islamic calendar where the dates are calculated by arithmetic rules. This differs from the religious Islamic calendar which is used to mark the beginning of particular holidays. The religious calendar depends on the first sighting of the new crescent moon to determine the first day of the new month. Because humans and weather are both involved, the actual time of sighting varies, so it is not really possible to precalculate the religious calendar. Certain groups, such as the Islamic Society of North America, decreed in in 2007 that they will use a calendar based on calculations rather than observations to determine the beginning of lunar months, and therefore the dates of holidays.

Constructor

# new IslamicCal(optionsopt)

Parameters:

Name	Type	Attributes	Description
`options`	`Object`	<optional>	Options governing the construction of this instance

View Source IslamicCal.js, line 41

Extends

Calendar

Methods

# getMonLength(month, year) → {number}

Return the number of days in a particular month in a particular year. This function can return a different number for a month depending on the year because of things like leap years.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
`month`	`number`	the month for which the length is sought
`year`	`number`	the year within which that month can be found

Overrides:

Calendar#getMonLength

View Source IslamicCal.js, line 92

Returns:

the number of days within the given month in the given year

Type: number

# getNumMonths(year)

Return the number of months in the given year. The number of months in a year varies for luni-solar calendars because in some years, an extra month is needed to extend the days in a year to an entire solar year. The month is represented as a 1-based number where 1=first month, 2=second month, etc.