Assertion: moon's crescent | /r/HasProperty | sighted
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text: The Islamic calendar is a lunar one: months begin when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted.
text: Some lunar Sabbatarians teach that New Moon Day is the day after Conjunction, provided the first visible crescent is sighted that evening.
text: The reason he wrote this booklet is that in 1348 C.E. (= 748 A.H., that is 671 years ago!) when the crescent of Dhul Hijjah, the last month of the Hijri year was being sighted, it could not be seen according to astronomers, and was not seen in the Levant or Egypt, yet some people claimed they have seen it.