Tracking the International Islamic Calendar Constructs Methodology Mohammad Ilyas

Abstract

International Islamic calendar becomes urgent needs of the people. Various attempts have been made so that the Islamic calendar could apply uniformly on an international scale. The need for this is understandable because it can be a symbol of unity of the people and to bridge the differences in execution time of worship, as well as the relatively already successfully applied to the determination of prayer times. Until now, the unification efforts of the International Islamic Calendar not come to fruition. The problem is that Islamic organizations tend to keep using the method and the respective criteria and have not agreed to the criteria used as a reference for determining the beginning bersama.Masalah month in the Islamic calendar generated a lot of difference in their establishment. The initial determination of the difference in impact on the breakup of a sense of community and disrupt fervently Muslims in worship, as different in determining when Ramadhan, Syawal and Zulhijah impacting other months. Worse, these differences also impact on other areas such as the political, economic and sociological. Departing from the above problems, Mohammad Ilyas, a Muslim astronomer from Malaysia has been donating his scientific career to study the problem of the International Islamic Calendar. In scientific ijtihad, Mohammad Ilyas introduced the concept of the Lunar Date Line Between Nations (International Lunar Date Line). The line is connected between the regions to obtain uniformity Hilal Mohammad Ilyas dividing the earth into three zones calendar. The construct of the Islamic calendar methodological offered Mohammad Ilyas can be said can not solve the problem, this needs to be a review of the system associated with the prevailing international calendar by using various multi-disciplinary approach and ilmudengan not ignore universal continuous dialogue.