The Qadimi Calendar
The cycle of days and months unaltered since 16 June 632 CE, and the cycle of religious observances unaltered since at least 1006 CE, form a stable calendar which is still in use today. Although Persia came under Arab, Islamic, rule in 651 CE, the civil reckoning of months and days was only disrupted for a short time and had returned to use for civil purposes within a century.
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“To divide one’s life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.”
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