Saudi Arabia bans Tablighi Jamaat
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Saudi Arabia has stunned the Islamic World by banning the Tablighi Jamaat, the Islamist proselytizing(conversion) movement.
The Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs announced the measure on its social media platform terming the Sunni Islamic organisation as "one of the gates of terrorism" and that Tablighi Jamaat poses "a danger to society".
Tablighi Jamaat - Tablighi Jamaat , which literally means a society for spreading the faith, is a Sunni Islamic missionary movement. The proselytising movement aims to reach out to ordinary Muslims and revive their faith, particularly in matters of ritual, dress, and personal behaviour.
- It was launched by Deoband cleric and prominet Islamic scholar Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Khandhalaw in 1927 in Mewat,Haryana.
- After Partition in 1947, a Pakistan chapter was started in the town of Raiwind, Lahore. Currently, Bangladesh has one of the largest chapters. The Tablighi Jamaat also has a significant base in the United States and Britain, which has a large Indian subcontinent diaspora. It also has a presence in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
- Its roots lie in the Deobandi version of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence.
- Salafism, which is sometimes also referred to as Wahhabism which is practised in Saudi Arabia is a rival of the Deobandi school and this move of the Saudi is seen as a rivalry within the Sunni Islam.
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Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest state in West Asia and a major oil exporting country in the world.
Saudi Arabia claims to be the leader of the islamic world as it is home to the two most holy mosques of Islam.
Al-Masjid al-Haram mosque is in Mecca, which is also the world's largest mosques and Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina.
The Organisation of Islamic Countries(OIC) headquarters is at Jeddah ,Saudi Arabia.
Capital of Saudi Arabia : RIyadh
Currency :Saudi Riyal
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