It is also called Maouloud in West Africa. 12th Rabi' al-awwal is the accepted date among most of the Sunni scholars, while most Shia scholars regard 17th Rabi' al-awwal as the accepted date, though not all Shias consider it to be this date. Mawlid, Mawlid an-Nabi ash-Sharif or Eid Milad un Nabi ( Arabic: المولد النبوي, romanized: mawlid an-nabawī, lit.'Birth of the Prophet', sometimes simply called in colloquial Arabic مولد, mawlid, mevlid, mevlit, mulud, among other vernacular pronunciations sometimes ميلاد, mīlād) is the observance of the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad which is commemorated in Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar. Hamd, Tasbih, public processions, Na`at (religious poetry), family and other social gatherings, decoration of streets and homes Traditional commemoration of the birth of Muhammad As a public holiday in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Benin, Bangladesh, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Egypt, Fiji, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Senegal, Somalia, Somaliland, Sudan, Tunisia, and Yemen Mawlid an-Nabawī (المولد النبوي), Eid-e-Milad un-Nabi, Havliye, Donba, Maouloud, Gani Īdherents of mainstream Barelvi, Shia Islam, Ibadi Islam and various other Islamic denominations.

Malaysian Sunni Muslims in a Mawlid procession in capital Putrajaya, 2013.

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