Eid al-Adha 2017 and 2018

By Abdullahi Baba Umar.

Eid al-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضحى‎ ʿīd al-aḍḥā [ʕiːd ælˈʔɑdˤħæ] meaning “Festival of the sacrifice”), also called the Feast of the Sacrifice, the Major Festival, the Greater Eid, Kurban Bayram (Turkish: Kurban Bayramı; Bosnian: kurban-bajram), Eid e Qurban (Persian: عید قربان‎) or Bakr’Eid (Urdu: بکرا عید‎), is the second of two religious holidays celebrated by Muslims around the World each year.  Eid al-Adha honors the willingness of Abraham (Ibrahim) to sacrifice his young first-born son Ishmael (Ismail)a as an act of submission to God’s command, before God then intervened to provide Abraham with a lamb to sacrifice instead.
In the lunar-based Islamic calendar, Eid al-Adha falls on the 10th day of Dhu al-Hijjah and lasts for four days. In the international Gregorian calendar, the dates vary from year to year, drifting approximately 11 days earlier each year.

• According to the Gregorian Calender, Eid Al-Adha 2018 will be on or around Wednesday, August 22, 2018
• According to the Gregorian Calender, Eid Al-Adha 2017 will be on or around Thursday, August 31, 2017

Previous Dates for Eid Al Adha

• According to the Gregorian Calender, Eid Al-Adha 2016 will be on or around Sunday, September 11, 2016
• According to the Gregorian Calender, Eid Al-Adha 2015 was on Wednesday, 23 September 2015
• According to the Gregorian Calender, Eid Al-Adha 2014 was on or around Saturday,  October 4, 2014

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