Both Sunni and Shia Muslims in Iraq celebrated Eid al-Fitr on the same day in 2016 for the first time in several years. Turkey, meanwhile, a country that is officially secular, uses astronomical ...
Late in the summer of 1988, in the last days of the long darkness in which a tyrant had shrouded his nation, Shia clerics had declared the coming of Eid. Local Sunnis, however, insisted the month ...