{"id":9310,"date":"2026-02-19T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9310"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:02:39","slug":"moonsighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/02\/19\/moonsighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonsighting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been writing about Moonsighting since <em>Virtually Islamic<\/em> emerged in 2000. Every year, there is a dynamic conversation and the presentation of multiple opinions, reflecting projections of religious authority from diverse sources. Whatever schedule you are following (if any), <em>Ramadan Kareem<\/em>!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mf4tfx5gj222\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreig6mckxrcyj7plojc6vgpyxxzmblzxq6npvi35ne377wdc7g5mbca\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">Moonsighting Ramadan issues under discussion here<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mf4tfx5gj222?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary R. Bunt (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">@garyrbunt.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mf4tfx5gj222?ref_src=embed\">18 February 2026 at 10:06<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been writing about Moonsighting since Virtually Islamic emerged in 2000. Every year, there is a dynamic conversation and the presentation of multiple opinions, reflecting projections of religious authority from diverse sources. Whatever schedule you are following (if any), Ramadan Kareem! Moonsighting Ramadan issues under discussion here [image or embed] &mdash; Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,277,114],"tags":[279,855,222,54],"class_list":["post-9310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramadan","category-saudi-arabia","category-saudi-arabia-internet","tag-ksa","tag-moonsighting","tag-ramadan","tag-religious-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9311,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310\/revisions\/9311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}