Photos of Ramadan 2013 2013

 

Began the month of Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, earlier this week, with the observation of the crescent, or new moon. Throughout this ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observant Muslims must abstain from food, drink and sex from dawn until sunset. The fasting, one of the five pillars of Islam, and a time for spiritual reflection, prayer, and charity. After sunset, Muslims break the fasting usually by eating three dates, and perform the Maghrib prayer, and sit down to breakfast, dinner Home, where communities and families gather together. Collected here are photos of Muslims all over the world who fast the month of Ramadan this year, including in the areas of the recent turmoil, such as Egypt and Turkey.
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A Yemeni girl wearing a traditional costume, attend a festival for children to receive the holy month of Ramadan in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen, on July 8, 2013. Muslims all over the world, including in Yemen are ready for the holy month of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar with fasting from dawn until dusk, prayer and spiritual meditation. (AP Photo / Hani Mohammed) 

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Muslim clerics scan the horizon for the crescent moon, which will set the start of the holy month of Ramadan, in Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 8, 2013. (AP Photo / Ahmad Ibrahim) 

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Egyptians shop in the market on the eve of Ramadan, the holy month for Muslims holy where many of fasting from sun up to sun down, on July 9, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images) 

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Palestinian man reads verses from the Koran, the holy book of Muslims, in the Omari Mosque in the first day of the month of Ramadan, on July 10, 2013 in Gaza City (Mohammed Abed / AFP / Getty Images) 

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Afghan employee holds in the traditional candy factory before the holy month of Ramadan in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 9, 2013. (AP Photo / Rahmat Gul) 

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A Pakistani Muslim performs ablution before evening prayers in a mosque and historical Minister Khan in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 10, 2013. (AP Photo / KM Chaudary) 

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A Palestinian boy looks at the traditional Ramadan lantern in a street market in Gaza City, on July 6, 2013. (Mohammed Abed / AFP / Getty Images) 

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Anti-government protesters Turkish as they gather to break the first day of fasting in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Istiklal Street, the main shopping corridor, on July 9, 2013 in Istanbul. (Bulent Kilic / AFP / Getty Images) 

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Thousands of people are sitting on Istiklal Street in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 9, 2013. Smashed thousands of fasting on the first day of the month of Ramadan, in a kind of spontaneous form of protest sitting in a line of some hundred meters from Galatasaray University in Taksim Square in the street chanting slogans while eating together. (AP Photo / Gero Breloer) 

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Anti-government protesters eat because they break their fast on the first day of the month of Ramadan as police officers to take a position in Taksim Square in Istanbul, on July 9, 2013. Turkish police have allowed thousands of protesters who were trying to prevent the re-development of a park in Istanbul to break their Ramadan fast on Tuesday before resuming efforts to get them to leave the area (REUTERS / Osman Orsal) 

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Anti-government protesters Turkish break the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan in Istiklal Street, on July 9, 2013 in Istanbul. (cos weights / AFP / Getty Images) 

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Workers clean the floor mosque Padhahi before the holy month of Ramadan in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 9, 2013. (REUTERS / Mohsin Raza) 

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Palestinian ranks to identify the sale in the first day of the month of Ramadan at a market in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on July 10, 2013. (Reuters / Mohammed Torokman) 

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The performance of students in the noon prayers on the first day of the month of Ramadan, in Surat Raudlatul good Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on July 10, 2013. (AP Photo / Binsar Bakkara) 

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Indonesian woman to play the game on a disk during her speech at the first night of the month of Ramadan at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, on July 9, 2013. (ADEK Perry / AFP / Getty Images) 

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Indonesian Muslim women to establish prayer on the first night of Ramadan at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, on July 9, 2013. (ADEK Perry / AFP / Getty Images) 

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The performance of students in the noon prayers on the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan, in Surat Raudlatul good Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on July 10, 2013. (AP Photo / Binsar Bakkara) 

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Muslim prayers in the first Tarawih marking the start of the holy month of Ramadan in a mosque Cheng is on 9 July 2013 in Surabaya, Indonesia. (Robertus Pudyanto / Getty Images) 

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Child walks near members of the Muslim community attend the noon prayers at the Grand Mosque of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France, on the first day of Ramadan, July 9, 2013. (Reuters / Vincent Kessler) 

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A child tends to bottom near members of the Muslim community attend the noon prayers at the Grand Mosque of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France, on the first day of Ramadan, July 9, 2013. (Reuters / Vincent Kessler) 

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Men Israeli Orthodox Jews walking decorations for the last month of Ramadan, in the old city of Jerusalem on July 7, 2013, where people are preparing for the upcoming Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP / Getty Images) 

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Mosque workers prepare food for distribution to the poor and Muslims who come to break their fast at the Noor Mosque in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 10, 2013. (AP Photo / Sayyid Azim)  

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The pastry chef carrying a box of Arabic sweets in his bakery in Gaza City on the eve of the start of the month of Ramadan, on July 9, 2013. (Mohammed Abed / AFP / Getty Images)  

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Indonesian Muslim man reads the Koran at a mosque in the July 9, 2013 in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Syamsul Bahri Muhammad / Getty Images) 

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Muslims attend the evening session congregational prayer called "Tarawih" on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan in the mosque Bajrakli in Belgrade, Serbia, on July 9, 2013. (REUTERS / Marko Djurica)  

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Woman looks at products as it buys food supplies in the supermarket, where Muslims are preparing for the fasting month of Ramadan in Dubai, on 8 July 2013. (Reuters / Jumana El sweet)  

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A Palestinian arranges Qatayef, dessert is traditionally eaten during the month of Ramadan, for sale in the first day of Ramadan in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on July 10, 2013. (Reuters / Mohammed Torokman) 

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And placed offerings of flowers last out for making the pilgrimage to visit the graves of family members before the month of Ramadan, on 9 July 2013 in Surabaya, Indonesia. (Robertus Pudyanto / Getty Images)

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Family reads verses from the Koran on the grave of one of his relatives in the cemetery, the day before the holy month of Ramadan, in Jakarta, on July 9, 2013. Indonesian Muslims traditionally visit the graves of their relatives and by about the end of the holy month of Ramadan. (Reuters / Nuraheni Enny)

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Nap while waiting for people to break their fast at Istiqlal mosque during the first day of the holy month of Ramadan in Jakarta, on July 10, 2013. (Reuters / Nuraheni Enny) 

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Woman who sells dates and grain in the street market in Abobo, a suburb in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, on July 9, 2013, on the first day of the month of Ramadan. (Issouf سانوغو of / AFP / Getty Images)

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Muslims attend the evening session congregational prayer called "Tarawih" on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan in the mosque Bajrakli in Belgrade, Serbia, on July 9, 2013. (REUTERS / Marko Djurica)  

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Indonesian Muslim women to establish prayer on the first night of the holy month of Ramadan at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, on July 9, 2013. (ADEK Perry / AFP / Getty Images)

Links and relevant information

Ramadan in Figures   2013

Ramadan - Wikipedia entry