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    Ramadan in a time of plague: 'The best thing is to stay home, stay quiet'

    For many the inability to pray and eat together will be keenly felt, while others are carrying on regardlessCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage
    by Michael Safi in Amman, Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi, Bethan McKernan in Istanbul, Rebecca Ratcliffe in Bangkok and Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem Apr 22, 2020 4 minutes
    A nearly deserted Ka’bah in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on 7 April. Photograph: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

    Mosques will be deserted, daylong fasts will be broken in isolation and in some places the calls to prayer that rally believers together will end with a different exhortation: worship from where you are.

    Ordinarily during Ramadan, the holy month that commences this week, Muslim community life swells with special prayers at mosques and crowded iftar dinners that can stretch into the early hours.

    But that kind of socialising now risks spreading coronavirus, and bans on religious and family gatherings will persist across much of the Islamic world even as businesses and government offices start to reopen.

    “It’s going to be difficult and depressing,” said Mohammad Faoury, who works for a refugee organisation in Amman, Jordan. “Since I’m single

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