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Bairam

The Persian and Turkish name for one of the two great Mohammedan festivals. It follows the fast called Ramadan, and lasts three days or more. There is a second Bairam seventy days after the first. This last four days.

citations: Encyc. of Rel., Canney

 

article created 2006-04-12 , last updated 2006-04-12





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