The fourth of the five daily Prayer services, which can be offered any time in the period starting from immediately after sunset and ending when there is still some light left on the horizon
The western Islamic world (northwest Africa); distinguished from the Mashriq (q v ), or eastern Islamic world (the Middle East) Traditionally includes Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Tripolitania (q v ) Literally, "the time or place of the sunset--the west " For its Arab conquerors, the region was the "island of the west" (jazirat al maghrib), the land between the "sea of sand" (Sahara) and the Mediterranean Sea Also transliterated as Maghreb
Sunset The Maghrib prayer is the prescribed prayer to be performed between sunset and the time when all day light is gone