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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <<a href="mailto:roerd096@PLANET.NL">roerd096@PLANET.NL</a>><span><span></span></span><span><span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal">
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2012.03.21 (01) [EN]</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span></span></p>According to a woman from Afghanistan I know, whom I spoke with very
briefly today, Nowruz was yesterday, so the 20th instead of 21st of
March. But I know she's a Shi'ite and sometimes their feasts differ in
date of those of Sunni Muslims. Shi'ites are a minority compared to
Sunni muslems worldwide, except in Iran and a few other countries like
Iraq. In Afghanistan they're a minority as well, even though the
populations speaks Dari for a great part, which is the Afghan version of
Farsi, the Persian language of Shi'ite Iran .<br>
Belonging to a small minority, unlike most Afghan shi'ites this woman
and her family are not Hazaras (who are partly Mongolid, also known from
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner) but her group, whose name I forgot, I
think something with Sadat in it, claims to be of Arab descendance.
They speak Dari as their mother language.<br>
Does someone know whether Shi'ites celebrate Nowruz a day earlier? Or
may it be because in Afghanistan the local time is ahead of that in the
West, and this woman still takes the Afghan time/date as a lead...<br>
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Ingmar<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">From: Paul Finlow-Bates [log in to unmask]</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2012.03.20 (04) [EN]</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Now Ruz is the Iranian new year in the modern calendar. The First of Ordibehesht equates to March 21; it's a public holiday.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
And here in the United Kingdom, our tax year begins on April 6th. Thats
because New Year was always traditionally 25th March (a Julian Calendar
approximation of the Equinox). When we switched to the Gregorian
Calendar in England (Scotland already had done), the extra days were
added on because people were outraged at having to pay tithes and taxes a
couple of weeks early.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Paul</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Derby</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
England</span></div>
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