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Islamic Tools Library (ITL) provided by Wikipedia:Arabeyes contains a set of command-line utilities for date conversion and Islamic APIs.

## Installation

ITL is available by installing the itoolsAUR package.

### Libraries

- luaHijri: Lua module, used by Arabic Wikipedia in the main page.
- phphijri
- Supported in java8 and above.

## Hijri

- emacs: ships with cal-islam.el module, which converts dates based on the algorithms specified in Calendrical Calculations book by Dershowitz and Reingold.
- itoolsAUR: a rewrite of cal-islam.el in C. Offers ical and idate analogous to cal and date utilities.
- python-hijri-converterAUR.

## See also

- Umm Alqura algorithm technical reading
- Localization/Arabic
- Bidirectional text

Category:

- Localization