Association of the Moroccan Initiative for Science and Thought: The date of the first month of Ramadan 1439-2018 astronomically

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It is determined by the beginning of Ramadan 1439 AH and the rest of the Hijri months in Islamic countries and the committees in charge in two ways: the first is astronomical calculations and estimates, and the second is by investigating the crescent with the naked eye or with a telescope on the 29th of the Hijri month.

Here we mention the expected start of a number of Arab and Islamic countries and a number of committees, as the first of Ramadan 1439-2018 will be astronomically within two days:

Wednesday, May 16, 2018: Officially in Turkey and the Balkan countries (Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Albania and Slovenia), Russia (according to Turkey), Ukraine and Germany (according to the fatwa of the European Council for Fatwa and Research), and according to the calendar of the Islamic Society of America North ( ISNA ), which is followed by the Muslims of the United States of America, Mexico and Canada.

Thursday, May 17, 2018: in most Arab and Islamic countries, which is the Sultanate of Oman according to the Omani calendar 2018, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, according to a statement by several astronomers: Dr. We ask the Saudi Supreme Court to rely on the official committees, and not to accept the delusional witnesses of Tamir and Sudair. In addition to the above, Egypt, according to the statement of the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research, Sudan, the Palestinian Territories, the Sunni endowment in Iraq, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates according to the unified Hijri calendar, and Kuwait according to the Kuwaiti astronomer Youssef Al-Marzouq, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria, according to the statement of the Syrian Astronomical Society, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen and Libya, according to the statement of the Vision Association for Amateur Astronomy in Libya, Tunisia, according to the statement of the National Institute of Meteorology, Algeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Australia, which will be announced by the Islamic Committee for the Crescent. The same applies to Iran and the Council of the Union of Scholars in South Africa and the Kingdom According to the scientific estimates of the Moroccan Initiative for Science and Thought, the Association of Sri Lankan Scholars, and the Islamic Observatory for Observing the Crescent in France, as well as the Wefaq Scholars Association in the United Kingdom, the Islamic Observatory for the Crescent in Italy, the Crescent Observation Committee in Toronto and its environs in Canada, the Chicago Committee for Observing the Crescent, the Crescent Sighting Committee for North America, the Crescent Sighting Committee in Colombia and South America, and the Crescent Observation Committee in Colombia and South America. The sighting of the crescent in Guyana and the Astronomical Society in Brunei Darussalam. There are committees in a number of African countries that we expect to announce the same beginning, namely Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Madagascar, Kenya and Ghana.