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From: paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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Subject: 1337 H corresponds to...
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Date: 12 Dec 90 02:23:20 GMT
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> In article <1990Dec10.052831.2447@nntp-server.caltech.edu> you write:
> >"This work is based on the recension of Hafs ibn Sulayman al-Asadi, as
> >it appears in the so-called 'Royal Egyptian' edition of the Qur'an,
> >first published in Cairo in 1337 H. and regarded by Arab scholars as
> >the most exact of all existing editions."
> >
> >1337 H. corresponds to 1959 AD.
> 
> Once the lunar/solar year ratio is taken into the formula, 1337 H. may
> come closer to 1919 AD.  If I'm correct, an approximate formula is...
> 
>    AD = 622 + H(354.36/365.24)
> 
> In Iran, however, there is a solar calendar which uses the Hijrah era.
> 1337 of the Iranian Solar calendar does approximate 1959 AD.
> -- 
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Don's likely right! Sorry for my oversight!