It’s been a though since I featured a war-related photojournalism piece, so I imagination The New York Times LENS blog brought us a couple of days ago an interesting On Assignment gallery from Tyler Hicks on the Tabligh Jamaat.
I like the clever way the photographer framed the above image, as he had to photograph surreptitiously and remarkably quickly because photography was banned from the Tabligh gathering for the sake of religious reasons.
Wikipedia describes the Tabligh (which means “conveying of message”) change as an apolitical religious movement, whose principal aim is reformation of Muslims, and was founded in India by Muhammad Ilyas as a voluntary, pacifist and independent movement.
The New York Times reports that it’s “a missionary movement that spreads revivalist Islam through its followers, who travel the world on preaching missions. The movement convenes in Raiwind, Pakistan, once a year. Attended by as many considered in the state of 1.5 million people, it is the largest gathering of Muslims outside the recurring with the year pilgrimage to Mecca.”
American authorities believe the change incubates “jihadists”.
For further reading, The New York Times has a 2007 article in the present state.
Note: For stereotype busting, have a aspect at Matthieu Paley’s fascinating coverage of the annual Lal Shabaz festival when over undivided million Sufis, devotees and onlookers, join this chaotic pilgrimage which cannot be added different than the austere Tablighi gathering.
Yes, folks…one body’sitting Islam is not not the same’s, even within neighboring countries.
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