File: cal-bahai.el.html

This collection of functions implements the features of calendar.el and diary-lib.el that deal with the Bahá’í calendar.

The Bahá’í (https://www.bahai.org) calendar system is based on a solar cycle of 19 months with 19 days each. The four remaining
"intercalary" days are called the Ayyám-i-Há (days of Há), and are
placed between the 18th and 19th months. They are meant as a time of festivals preceding the 19th month, which is the month of fasting. In Gregorian leap years, there are 5 of these days (Há has the numerical value of 5 in the arabic abjad, or letter-to-number, reckoning).

Each month is named after an attribute of God, as are the 19 days
-- which have the same names as the months. There is also a name
for each year in every 19 year cycle. These cycles are called Váhids. A cycle of 19 Váhids (361 years) is called a Kullu-Shay, which means "all things".

The calendar was named the "Badí‘ calendar" by its author, the Báb. It uses a week of seven days, corresponding to the Gregorian week, each of which has its own name, again patterned after the attributes of God.

Note: The days of Ayyám-i-Há are encoded as zero and negative offsets from the first day of the final month. So, (19 -3 157) is the first day of Ayyám-i-Há, in the year 157 BE.

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