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The Islamic calendar is fairly unique among calendars in its lack of intercalation. Not only that, intercalation is pretty nakedly forbidden in Islam to the extent that it is mentioned in the Quran. Why did Muhammad have so much beef with the leap year?

by /u/Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX in /r/AskHistorians

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