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23 Ramadan is the twenty-third day of the ninth month (Ramadan) of the Islamic calendar.

In the Lunar Hijri calendar, this day is the 259th day of the year.

Births

23 Ramadan 1438 AH (18 June 2017), Iran, Sanandaj: official nightlife worship ceremony will be held throughout the country.

23 Ramadan 1438 AH (18 June 2017), Iran, Mashhad, Imam Reza Shrine: it is customary for Iranian peoples to go to religious places and worship until morning.

• 220 AH – Ahmad ibn Tulun, the founder of the Tulunid dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria between 868 and 905 AD

Deaths

• 247 AH – Ahmad ibn Isa ibn Zayd, the grandson of Zayd ibn Ali, one of the famous Alawites of the early Abbasid caliphate and one of the famous Zaidiyyah scholars
• 539 AH – Fatemeh Baghdadieh, an Iraqis Hadith scholar woman who lived mostly in Isfahan
• 1384 AH – Javad Fumani Haeri, an Iranian Ayatollah, revolutionary fighter and Shia scholar

Events

• 491 AH – Occupation of Jerusalem by the Crusaders
• 1254 AH – End of writing the valuable jurisprudential book "Jawahir al-Kalam" by Muhammad Hasan al-Najafi
• 1261 AH – End of writing the perfect book on Islamic philosophy "Manẓuma" by Hadi Sabzavari
• 1392 AH – End of writing the notable tafsir (exegesis of the Quran) "Tafsir al-Mizan" by Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai
• The day of the revelation of the Quran, holy book of Islam (more probable, according to the narrations)

Holidays and observances

• The third Qadr Night of Ramadan according to Shiites and most important of them, holding an official nightlife worship ceremony called Ehya night in Iran

See also

• 19 Ramadan
• 21 Ramadan
• 13 Rajab