Editing Tabular Islamic calendar (section)

=== 8-year cycle ===
Tabular Islamic calendars based on an 8-year cycle (with 2, 5 and 8 as leap years) were also used in the Ottoman Empire and in South-East Asia.<ref>Ian Proudfoot, ''Old Muslim Calendars of Southeast Asia'' (Leiden: Brill, 2006 [= ''Handbook of Oriental Studies'', Section&nbsp;3, vol.&nbsp;17]).</ref> The cycle contains 96 months in 2835 days, giving a mean month length of 29.53125 days, or 29d 12h 45m.

Though less accurate than the tabular calendars based on a 30-year cycle, it was popular due to the fact that in each cycle the weekdays fall on the same calendar date. In other words, the 8-year cycle is exactly 405 weeks long, resulting in a mean of exactly 4.21875 weeks per month.