Editing Muharram (section)

==Origins in Pre-Islamic Calendar==
The name, Muharram, is originally not a proper name but an adjective qualifying [[Safar]]. In the pre-Islamic period, the first two months of the old Meccan year were Safar [q.v.] I and II, which is reflected in the dual a potiori of al-Safaran for al-Muharram and Safar; in the old Arab year, the first half year consisted of “Three months of two months each” (the names of each two months were only different in the numbers used in them) (Wellhausen), as the two Safars were followed by two Rabiʿs and two Jumadas. <ref>[https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/al-muharram-SIM_5426. brill]</ref> The pre-Islamic Arabs held the lunar month of Muharram to be sacred during which warfare is forbidden.