MAWLID is an Arabic word that literally means the time and place of a birth, but the word is used in particular for the birth of the prophet Muḥammad (mawlid al-nabī). In some Islamic countries it also refers to the festival days of local...

Mawlid (Arabic: مولد) is a term used to refer to the observance of the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad which occurs in Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar.[1] The origins of the observance can be traced back to the...