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Pythonic Hijri datetime — handle full & partial dates, ranges, and seamless Gregorian & Jalali conversion.

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hijri-datetime

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📅 Hijri (Islamic) calendar datetime library for Python
A drop-in replacement for Python's built-in datetime module, supporting Hijri date arithmetic, formatting, conversion, partial dates, and integration with jdatetime.


Features

  • HijriDate / HijriDateTime classes
    Drop-in replacement for datetime.date and datetime.datetime.

  • Partial Dates & Ranges
    Handle missing months or days gracefully:

    • HijriDate(1446) → represents the full year.
    • HijriDate(1446, 2) → represents all days of month 2.
    • Arithmetic supports ranges and comparisons.
  • Gregorian ↔ Hijri Conversion

    • Vectorized conversion using preloaded dataset (from Aladhan API).
    • Accurate conversion for historical and future dates.
  • Integration with jdatetime
    Convert Hijri dates to Jalali calendar easily:

    import jdatetime
    jd = hijri_date.to_jdatetime()
    
  • Full datetime API support Methods like .year, .month, .day, .weekday(), .isoweekday(), .strftime(), .fromisoformat(), .today(), .now().

  • Calendar module compatibility Leap year checks, month lengths, weekdays, etc.

  • Vectorized / Bulk Conversion Support Efficient for millions of rows with pandas/numpy.


Installation

pip install hijri-datetime

Quick Start

from hijri_datetime import HijriDate, HijriDateTime

# Create Hijri dates
d1 = HijriDate(1446, 2, 15)  # Full date
d2 = HijriDate(1446, 2)      # Day missing → treat as range
d3 = HijriDate(1446)         # Month & day missing → full year range

# Convert to Gregorian
print(d1.to_gregorian())             # datetime.date(2025, 9, 9)
print(d2.to_gregorian_range())       # [datetime.date(2025,9,1), datetime.date(2025,9,30)]
print(d3.to_gregorian_range())       # full year range

# Date arithmetic
print(d1 + 10)   # Add 10 days
print(d1 - 5)    # Subtract 5 days

# jdatetime conversion
import jdatetime
jd = d1.to_jdatetime()
print(jd)        # jdatetime.date(...)

Partial Dates & Ranges

  • HijriDate(1446) → represents the whole year.
  • HijriDate(1446, 2) → represents all days of month 2.
  • Conversion to Gregorian returns ranges:
  • Year only

    d = HijriDate(1446)
    start, end = d.to_gregorian_range()
    print(start, end)  # 2024-07-18 2025-07-06 (example)
    
  • Year and Month only

    d = HijriDate(1446, 2)
    start, end = d.to_gregorian_range()
    print(start, end)  # 2025-09-01 2025-09-30 (example)
    

Gregorian ↔ Hijri Conversion

from hijri_datetime import HijriConverter

converter = HijriConverter()

# Hijri → Gregorian
greg = converter.hijri_to_gregorian(1446, 2, 15)
print(greg)  # datetime.date(2025, 9, 9)

# Gregorian → Hijri
hijri = converter.gregorian_to_hijri(greg)
print(hijri)  # HijriDate(1446, 2, 15)

jdatetime Integration

from hijri_datetime import HijriDate

d = HijriDate(1446, 2, 15)
jd = d.to_jdatetime()
print(jd)  # jdatetime.date(2025, 6, 16) example

Pandas / Vectorized Example

import pandas as pd
from hijri_datetime import HijriDate

dates = pd.Series([HijriDate(1446, 1, 1), HijriDate(1446, 2, 10)])
greg_dates = dates.apply(lambda x: x.to_gregorian())
print(greg_dates)

Roadmap

  • Full calendar module API compatibility
  • Timezone-aware Hijri datetime
  • Support for Umm al-Qura, tabular, and other Hijri variants
  • Improved bulk conversion performance
  • PyPI release with automated dataset update from Aladhan API

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! Please open an issue first to discuss major changes. Could you make sure tests pass before submitting PRs?


License

GNU License © 2025

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