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An officer of Malaysia's Islamic authority uses a telescope to perform "rukyah,” the sighting of the new moon of Ramadan, in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, on June 5, 2016. Muslims scan the sky at dusk in the beginning of the lunar calendar's ninth month in search of the new moon to proclaim the start of Ramadan, Islam's holiest month during which observant believers fast from dawn to dusk.
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Students pray at Ar-Raudhatul Hasanah Islamic boarding school on the first day of Ramadan in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on June 6, 2016.
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A Musaharati, or dawn awakener, strikes his drum to wake observant Muslims for their overnight sahur, or last meal, before the day's fast during Ramadan in Sidon's Old City in south Lebanon just before dawn, June 8, 2016.
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Students sit in circles during a Quran recital class on the first day of Ramadan at Ar-Raudlatul Hasanah Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on June 6, 2016.
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Muslims attend the Ramadan prayer at Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, on June 5, 2016.
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A Muslim woman reads the Quran following noon prayers on the first day of Ramadan at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, on June 6, 2016.
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A man sets out food for fasting Muslims to break their fast on the first day of Ramadan in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, on June 7, 2016.
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A Muslim man prays before his iftar on the first day of Ramadan in India, at the Jama Masjid, or Grand Mosque, in the old quarters of Delhi, India, on July 7, 2016.
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In this June 7, 2016 picture, Egyptians play with fireworks as they celebrate the holy month of Ramadan in Cairo, Egypt.
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Palestinian girl reads the Quran during Ramadan at a mosque in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 8, 2016.
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Students sit in circles during a Quran recital class on the first day of Ramadan at Ar-Raudlatul Hasanah Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on June 6, 2016.
Binsar Bakkara / AP



A cannon fires a ceremonial shot to start iftar, the evening meal for breaking fast, on the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Sultanahmet square in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 6, 2016.
Murad Sezer / Reuters



A Bangladeshi vendor covers food data-x-items with a plastic sheet to save it from a rain while Muslim devotees break their fast on the first day of Ramadan in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on June 7, 2016.
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A shop owner sells sweets as mainly Muslim Lebanese shop prior to iftar, or breaking of the daylong fast, in the old market in the ancient coastal city of Tripoli, north of Beirut, on June 6, 2016.
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A pastry vendor pours honey on Chebakia pastries the day before the start of Ramadan on June 6, 2016, in the old medina of Rabat, Morocco.
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