ALGIERS, April 20 — Days before the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the Islamic world is grappling with an untimely paradox of the new coronavirus pandemic: Enforced separation at a time when socialising is almost sacred. The holiest month in the Islamic calendar is one of family and...
Muslims pray while practising social distancing inside a mosque amid the spread of Covid-19 in Temanggung, Central Java province, Indonesia April 3, 2020. — Antara Foto via Reuters
Across the Muslim world the pandemic has generated new levels of anxiety ahead of the holy fasting month, which begins on around Thursday. “I cannot imagine Ramadan without Tarawih,” he said, referring to additional prayers performed at mosques after iftar, the evening meal in which Muslims break their fast.
During Ramadan, street traders in the Egyptian capital stack their tables with dates and apricots, sweet fruits to break the fast, and the city’s walls with towers of traditional lanterns known as “fawanees.”
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