It may well be pre-Islamic in origin, but people here expereince it as a very Islamic holiday because it wasn't celebrated in the Soviet period.
Everyone I know has told me it was "Islamic New Year," and I take this to mean that even if that isn't how it was treated historically, and Arab Muslims don't practice it, it is certainly being expereinced as such here.
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Date: 2005-03-31 04:15 am (UTC)Everyone I know has told me it was "Islamic New Year," and I take this to mean that even if that isn't how it was treated historically, and Arab Muslims don't practice it, it is certainly being expereinced as such here.