Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi: Difference between revisions

In the early 1920s, he prepared a team of young [[madrasah]] graduates from [[Deoband]] and [[Saharanpur]] and sent them to [[Mewat]] to establish a network of mosques and Islamic schools movement.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}} He once said that if he had to attribute a name to his movement, it would have been ''Tehreek-e-Imaan'' ('Imaan/Faith movement').  The people of [[South Asia]] started calling the devotees ''Tableeghi'' and this name eventually became popular among the common people.<ref name="hindustan">{{cite news |title = Tablighi Jamaat traces its origins to the Mewat region |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/gurugram/tablighi-jamaat-traces-its-origins-to-the-mewat-region/story-A1MBdEZzFtrNLLYdDnJbyI.html |access-date=7 May 2020}}</ref>  The Tablighi Jamaat has since gone on to become one of the most widespread grassroots Islamic movements in the world with a presence in hundreds of countries, including Canada, South Africa and the UK.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Timol |first1=Riyaz |title=Structures of Organisation and Loci of Authority in a Glocal Islamic Movement: The Tablighi Jama'at in Britain |journal=Religions |date=14 October 2019 |volume=10 |issue=10 |page=573 |doi=10.3390/rel10100573 |url=https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/10/573/htm|doi-access=free }}</ref>