{"id":198991,"date":"2025-05-28T18:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-eid-al-adha-june-6-mufti-of-republic\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T18:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:15:44","slug":"tunisia-eid-al-adha-june-6-mufti-of-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-eid-al-adha-june-6-mufti-of-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Eid Al-Adha, June 6 (Mufti of Republic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Tunis \u2014 Wednesday, May 28, will be the first day of the month of Dhu al-Hijja 1446 of the Hegira, Mufti of the Republic Hichem Ben Mahmoud announced in a statement on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">This follows the observation of the lunar crescent, confirmed both religiously and astronomically, and is consistent with the announcement made earlier today by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The Mufti added that the day of Arafat will correspond to Thursday June 5, 2025, i.e. Dhu al-Hijja 9, 1446, and that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505280208.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis \u2014 Wednesday, May 28, will be the first day of the month of Dhu al-Hijja 1446 of the Hegira, Mufti of the Republic Hichem Ben Mahmoud announced in a statement on Tuesday evening. This follows the observation of the lunar crescent, confirmed both religiously and astronomically, and is consistent with the announcement made earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":198992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,42885,11025,7486,2817,257,5935,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-198991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aladha","tag-eid","tag-june","tag-mufti","tag-news","tag-republic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}