islamisation" of all Muslim societies? From 2008 to 2010 Abbas travelled the world of Buddhism, photographing with the same sceptical eye for his book Les Enfants du lotus, voyage chez les bouddhistes (2011). In 2011, he began a similar long-term project on Hinduism which he concluded in 2013. Before his death, Abbas was working on documenting Judaism around the world. Filming for Abbas by Abbas (2020) by director Kamy Pakdel (who also served as art director for some of Abbas' books) was completed days before Abbas' death. In the film Abbas is asked how he got a particular shot and he replies “Let the photos live their lives and keep their mystery.” He died in Paris on 25 April 2018, aged 74. About his photography Abbas wrote: My photography is a reflection, which comes to life in action and leads to meditation. Spontaneity – the suspended moment – intervenes during action, in the viewfinder. A reflection on the subject precedes it. A meditation on finality follows it, and it is here, during this exalting and fragile moment, that the real photographic writing develops, sequencing the images. For this reason a writer's spirit is necessary to this enterprise. Isn't photography "writing with light"? But with the difference that while the writer possesses his word, the photographer is himself possessed by his photo, by the limit of the real which he must transcend so as not to become its prisoner. Books Iran, la révolution confisquée, Clétrat, Paris, 1980 Retornos a Oapan, FCE Rio de Luz, Mexico, 1986 Return to Mexico, W. W. Norton, New York, 1992 Allah O Akbar, voyages dans l’Islam militant, Phaidon, London, 1994 Allah O Akbar, a journey through militant Islam, Phaidon, London, 1994 Viaggio negli Islam del Mondo, Contrasto, Roma, 2002 Voyage en chrétientés, La Martiniere, Paris, 2000 Faces of Christianity, A. Abrams, New York, 2000 Glaube-liebe-hoffnung, Knesebeck, Munchen, 2000 IranDiary 1971–2002, Autrement, Paris, 2002 IranDiario 1971–2005, Sagiattore, Milano, 2006 Abbas, I Grandi Fotografi di Magnum, Hachette, Milan, 2005 Sur la Route des Esprits, Delpire, Paris, 2005 The children of Abraham, (exhibition catalogue), Intervalles, Paris, 2006 In Whose Name?, Thames & Hudson, London, 2009 Ali, le Combat, Sonatines, Paris, 2011 Les Enfants du lotus, voyage chez les bouddhistes, De la Martinière, Paris, 2011 Exhibitions 1972: Ganvie People, Falomo, Nigeria 1977: Retrospective, Galerie Litho, Tehran; Ce jour là, Galerie FNAC, Paris 1977: Le reportage d'agence, Rencontres de la Photographie,