Iftar
Iftār ( Arabic إفطار, DMG ifṭār 'breaking the fast') is the evening meal that Muslims eat after sunset every evening during the fasting month of Ramadan . During Ramadan, Muslims are prohibited from eating and drinking before sunset. The Arabic term ifṭār is related to that of Fitr in ʿĪd al-Fitr (عيد الفطر, DMG ʿĪd al-Fiṭr , which denotes the festival of breaking the fast after the end of the month of Ramadan), meaning “breaking the fast”. Outside of this context, the term refers to breakfast . Iftar can be a family dinner, or a celebratory meal in a mosque or other public place, sometimes of considerable size.
The orientalist Annemarie Schimmel describes her experiences in Ankara in her autobiography as follows:
“If you invited us to iftar , to break the fast at sunset in Ramadan, the food was already on the table and you said that the waiting dishes were singing God's praises in their silent language until the moment of breaking the fast came, when you were first eats an odd number of dates. "
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- ↑ The last meal in the morning is called sahur .
- ↑ Annemarie Schimmel: Orient and Occident. My west-east life. Autobiography. Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-49564-8 , p. 109