Nasi'

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Nasiʾ (Arabic: ٱلنَّسِيء, an-Nasīʾ, "postponement"), also Romanized Nasii, or Nasie, was an aspect of the pre-Islamic Arabian calendar, mentioned in the Quran in the context of the "four forbidden months".^[1] In pre-Islamic Arabia, the decision of "postponement" had been administered by the Banu Kinanah,^[2] by a man known as the al-Qalammas (pl. qalāmisa).^[3] Different interpretations of its meaning have been proposed.