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</style><title>Eid al-Fitr | Definition, Meaning, Celebration, & Facts | Britannica</title><div class="original-url">The Muslim holy month of Ramadan end it fasting by day comes to a close with a great familial feast, celebrated this year on either May 2 or May 3, depending where you are in relation to the international date line at the precise moment in the lunar calendar. g</div><div class="original-url">Peace, shalom, Salam</div><div class="original-url"><br><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Eid-al-Fitr">https://www.britannica.com/topic/Eid-al-Fitr</a><br><br></div><div id="article" role="article" style="-webkit-locale: "en"; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="system exported">
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<div class="page" style="text-align: start; word-wrap: break-word; max-width: 100%;"><h1 class="title" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.95552em; line-height: 1.2141em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; text-align: start; display: block; max-width: 100%;">Eid al-Fitr</h1><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;"></span>Eid al-Fitr</strong>, (Arabic: “Festival of Breaking Fast”) also spelled <strong style="max-width: 100%;">ʿĪd al-Fiṭr</strong>, also called <strong style="max-width: 100%;">al-ʿĪd al-Ṣaghīr</strong>, Turkish <strong style="max-width: 100%;">Ramazan Bayrami (“Ramadan Festival”)</strong>, first of two <a data-term="canonical" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canonical" data-type="MW" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">canonical</a> festivals of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Islam" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Islam</a>. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of <span style="max-width: 100%;"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ramadan" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Ramadan</a>, the Muslim holy month of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/fasting" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">fasting</a>, and is celebrated during the first three days of <span style="max-width: 100%;"></span>Shawwal, the 10th month of the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Muslim-calendar" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Islamic calendar</a> (though the Muslim use of a <a href="https://www.britannica.com/science/lunar-calendar" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">lunar calendar</a> means that it may fall in any season of the year). As in Islam’s other holy <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/feast-religion" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">festival</a>, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Eid-al-Adha" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Eid al-Adha</a>, it is distinguished by the performance of communal prayer (<span style="max-width: 100%;"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/salat" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="max-width: 100%;">ṣalāt</em></a>) at daybreak on its first day. Eid al-Fitr is a time of official receptions and private visits, when friends greet one another, presents are given, new clothes are worn, and the graves of relatives are visited. <em style="max-width: 100%;">See also</em> <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/mawlid" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="max-width: 100%;">mawlid</em></a>; <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ashura-Islamic-holy-day" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">ʿĀshūrāʾ</a>.</p></div></div></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div></body></html>