The Moon & the Month: A Fatwa on the Importance of Sighting the Crescent for Determining the Lunar Months

When should the Islamic month actually begin? In this focused legal treatise, Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse addresses the importance of sighting the crescent and the principles governing the lunar calendar. Concise, scholarly, and highly relevant, it brings classical Islamic jurisprudence directly into a question Muslims continue to confront every Ramadan and Eid.