{"id":535,"date":"2015-09-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2015\/09\/25\/staff-and-students-celebrate-eid-al-adha-in-eda\/"},"modified":"2015-09-25T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T00:00:00","slug":"staff-and-students-celebrate-eid-al-adha-in-eda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2015\/09\/25\/staff-and-students-celebrate-eid-al-adha-in-eda\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff and students celebrate Eid al-Adha in EDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Staff and students in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts celebrated Eid al-Adha on Thursday 24th September 2015.  Dr Farzin Deravi and Dr Sanaul Hoque kindly sponsored the morning refreshments in honour of this occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Eid al-Adha (Arabic: \u0639\u064a\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0636\u062d\u0649\u200e \u02bf\u012bd al-a\u1e0d\u1e25\u0101 &#8216;festival of the sacrifice&#8217;), also called Feast of the Sacrifice, the Major Festival, the Greater Eid, Kurban Bayram (Turkish: Kurban Bayram\u0131;Serbo-Croat-Bosnian: kurban-bajram), Eid-e-Qurban (Persian: \u0639\u06cc\u062f \u0642\u0631\u0628\u0627\u0646\u200e), and Bakr Eid or Bakrid (Hindustani, Urdu: \u0628\u0642\u0631 \u0639\u06cc\u062f \u200e), is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to honour the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his young first-born sonIsmail (Ishmael) as an act of submission to God&#8217;s command and his son&#8217;s acceptance to being sacrificed, before God intervened to provide Abraham with a Lamb to sacrifice instead.<\/p>\n<p>Eid al-Adha is celebrated through family and friend gatherings, meals (especially lunches and late breakfasts), wearing new clothes, and giving gifts.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and students in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts celebrated Eid al-Adha on Thursday 24th September 2015. Dr Farzin Deravi and Dr Sanaul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2015\/09\/25\/staff-and-students-celebrate-eid-al-adha-in-eda\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}