Una donna prova una maschera ad un festival a Gedda, Arabia Saudita. Foto AFP / Getty
Dal Giappone alla Costa d’Avorio, dal Nepal a Ventimiglia, immagini che raccontano il Ramadan, mese islamico del digiuno e della purificazione, quando i musulmani devoti devono astenersi da cibo, bevande, fumo e sesso dall’alba fino al tramonto. Importante anche evitare cattivi pensieri, cattive azioni, e sentimenti di rabbia.
Il Ramadan, considerato uno dei cinque pilastri dell’Islam, è visto anche come un momento di riflessione spirituale, preghiera e carità. Dopo il tramonto, i musulmani tradizionalmente rompono il digiuno mangiando tre datteri, pregando e infine consumando un pasto insieme alla famiglia o alle comunità.
L’Id al-Fitr (o Eid al-Fitr) è il festival che segna la fine del Ramadan, e dunque la festa dell’interruzione del digiuno. A seguire, le immagini dal mondo:
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In Japan’s Chiba Prefecture, Yohei Matsuyama, a Japanese Muslim and postdoctoral research fellow at Tokyo University, is silhouetted by a window as he looks at religious books at Hira Mosque in Gyotoku, on July 11, 2015. Matsuyama, who converted to Islam at age 18, is also director of the Japan Muslim Association, which estimates that about 10,000 native Japanese Muslims live in the predominantly Shinto and Buddhist country. #
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An Iranian confectioner stacks special sweets called “zulbia” and “bamieh” in a pastry shop in Tehran on June 27, 2015. Zulbia and bamieh are the most popular sweets during the holy month of Ramadan in Iran, eaten as a special dessert after breaking the fast. Zulbia contains yogurt and starch and is deep-fried as a dough before being covered with a syrup of sugar and saffron. Bamieh is oval-shaped dough pieces, containing flour and eggs, deep-fried and then covered with the same syrup. #
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Palestinians, not permitted by Israeli security forces to cross into Jerusalem from the West Bank due to an age limit, use a ladder to climb over a section of the controversial Israeli barrier as they try to make their way to attend the fourth Friday prayer of Ramadan in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the village of Al-Ram, near Ramallah, on July 10, 2015. #
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A Palestinian child recites verses from the Koran, Islam’s holy book, as he waits for the noon prayer at a mosque during the holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip. #
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Pakistani Shiite Muslims march in a procession to observe the death anniversary of Imam Ali, the son-in-law of Prophet Mohammad, in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 9, 2015. #
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Placing the Koran on their heads, Iranian Shiite Muslims pray at the graves of soldiers who were killed during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war at the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery just outside Tehran, Iran, on July 8, 2015, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan. #
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A girl smiles while holding water bottles she collected from a charity distribution point during a heatwave, outside the emergency department of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) in Karachi, Pakistan, on June 28, 2015. #
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A vendor bags a local delicacy to take away for Iftar during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, outside the Grand Mosque of Koumassi in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on June 19, 2015. #
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An Afghan laborer works at a traditional “jalebi” (sweet) factory during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in Herat province on June 22, 2015. #
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A man carries out Wudu, a washing procedure in preparation for prayer, at the East London Mosque before the first Friday prayers of Ramadan on June 19, 2015, in London, England. #
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In Beijing, China, Muslim women share a light moment as they prepare food to break their fast with other devotees on the first day of Ramadan at the Niujie Mosque on June 18, 2015. #
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A Kenyan Muslim child reads verses from the Koran, Islam’s holy book, on the 11th day of Ramadan at a madrassa (religious school), in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 28, 2015.#
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A vendor sells traditional cakes of fried honey and flour pastries to customers during the first day of Ramadan in the medina of the Moroccan city of Oujda on June 18, 2015. #
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Palestinian girls wait ahead of prayers on the third Friday of Ramadan at the compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on July 3, 2015. #
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Palestinian Sanaa Abu Jaudi (left), 16, from the West Bank city of Jenin, takes a selfie photo with friends in front of the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, during Ramadan, on June 29, 2015. This is Abu Jaudi’s third visit to the compound. Palestinians young and old have jumped on a trend for taking selfies at Al-Aqsa, the eighth-century Muslim shrine in Jerusalem, both as a personal memento and for relatives prevented from or unable to visit the ancient compound. #
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Children watch as a whirling dervish performs a traditional Sufi dance during Ramadan at a celebration in front of a historical mosque of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaitbey, and near a Sufi concert in the old Islamic area of Cairo, Egypt, on July 8, 2015. #
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A Muslim man calls for the evening prayer after having his Iftar (breaking of fast) meal at the ruins of the Feroz Shah Kotla mosque in New Delhi, India, on June 28, 2015.#
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Fonte immagini: The Atlantic
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