APPENDIX B.

IN the preceding pages frequent reference is made to events happening in certain months. For ready refer­ence the names of the Muhammadan months are here given:

1.	Muharram.
2.	Safar.
3.	Rabyi’ 1st.
4.	Rabyi’ 2nd.
5.	Jomâdi 1st.
6.	Jomâdi 2nd.
7.	Rajab.
8.	Sha’bân.
9.	Ramadzan.
10.	Shawwal.
11.	Dhu-l-qa’dah.
12.	Dhu-l-hejjah.

As these are lunar months, the Muhammadan year contains 354 days, 9 hours only, and their Naw Roz, or New Year’s Day, falls every year about eleven days earlier than the preceding one.

As compared with our fixed months, the Muhammadan ones are always changing, so that the date of the Ramadzan or fasting month would be different every year of the Hijrah, which began July 16, A.D. 622. One hundred lunar years are very nearly equal to ninety-seven solar years, but for further particulars see Hughes’s ‘Dictionary of Islam’ (W. H. Allen and Co., London, 1885).