Muslim women perform an evening prayer, called tarawih, marking the eve of Ramadan at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 20, 2012.

Injured Syrian men, who said their injuries were inflicted by Syrian security forces during the violence in their country, pray at a shelter in Amman, Jordan on July 20.

Muslims attend Friday prayers at the courtyard of a housing estate in east London on July 20.

Palestinian women pray outside 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 on July 20. Israeli police said Palestinian males over the age of 40 would be permitted to enter the compound in Jerusalem's Old City on Friday.

Pakistanis attend the daily Asr prayer, or afternoon prayer, in Islamabad on July 20.

A man vacuums before Friday prayer at the Houda Mosque in Algiers on July 20.

Saudis use a telescope to monitor the new moon of Ramadan as astronomers and scholars of Islam debate when the holy Muslim month of Ramadan begins, in the Saudi city of Taif on Thursday, July 19. The start of the fasting month, when the faithful abstain from eating from dawn to sunset, is determined by the sighting of the new moon.

A Jordanian man looks at decorations for Ramadan in Amman, Jordan, Thursday, July 19. Religious authorities in Jordan declared that Friday will be the start of the holy month of Ramadan, a period devoted to dawn-to-dusk fasting, prayers and spiritual introspection. Ramadan begins around 11 days earlier each year. Its start is calculated based on the sighting of the new moon, which marks the beginning of the Muslim lunar month that varies between 29 or 30 days.

A Palestinian boy plays with fireworks as he celebrates the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday, July 19.

Police and military stand guard as Egyptian Muslims gather to pray, celebrating the start of the three-day feast known in Arabic as Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Tahrir Square, the scene of mass demonstrations which brought down the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo on August 30.

Police and soldiers are greeted by worshippers in Tahrir Square on August 30.

A man holds balloons as he sits on top of a statue of nationalist hero Omar Makram in Tahrir Square on Aug. 30.

People board passenger boats as they head back to their hometowns ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday during dusk at Sadarghat in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Aug. 27.

Young passengers look out of a train window as they leave Pasar Senen train station in Jakarta, Indonesia, Aug. 27. Millions of Indonesian Muslims leave the capital and other major cities to head to their hometowns to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

Indonesian riders queue on their motorbikes as they wait to board a passenger ship at Gilimanuk Port in Jembrana, Bali, Indonesia, Aug. 27. Muslims across Indonesia are moving from major cities back to their home towns, to celebrate the Muslim Eid al-Fitr festival which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

A Palestinian boy peeks through a gap in a wall from behind which Palestinian women try to cross to Jerusalem at a checkpoint in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, August 26.

Bangladeshi Muslims offer Jummat-Ul-Vida prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan outside the National Mosque of Bangladesh, Baitul Mukarram in Dhaka on August 26, ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival. The three-day festival, which begins after the sighting of a new crescent moon, marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, during which devout Muslims abstain from food, drink, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.

A Thai Muslim boy reads the Quran as he attends the last Friday prayer of Ramadan at the Central Mosque in the southern city of Pattani, Thailand, on August 26. The holy month of Ramadan is recording a spike in attacks by suspected Muslim separatist insurgents in the Thai restive south with a roadside blast which killed at least five security officers on August 26 in the neighbouring province of Narathiwat.

A Palestinian woman holds her daughter's hand and ID card backdropped by a part of the separation wall between Israel and Palestine as they wait in line at the Qalandia checkpoint that leads from the West Bank town of Ramallah to Jerusalem on August 5, in order to attend Friday prayers in the holy Muslim month of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The Israeli army limited the age of Palestinian men who can enter Jerusalem to those over the age of 50.

A Palestinian woman walks past an Israeli border policeman at the Qalandia checkpoint on August 5, the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.

A young boy holds on to a relative while waiting in line at the Qalandia checkpoint on August 5.

A Palestinian man hangs decorations for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan outside his home in Jerusalem's Old City July 31. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking and conducting sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.