in Pakistan. According to 2013 Statistics, 49 small and large madrasa with over eight thousand students in Sistan and Balochistan are under the umbrella of these schools. In recent years, girls madrasa called "Maktab al-Banat" have been established in most major cities and villages. Another action taken by scholars affiliated with the Deobandi ideology was joining the Tablighi Jamaat circle. The formation of Tablighi Jaamat in Iran dates back to the time of the life of Abdul Aziz Malazada in Delhi. One day, he went to meet Ilyas Kandhlawi, the founder of the Tablighi Jaamat in India, and asked him for guidance on how to propagate religious affairs in Iran. Ilyas Kandhlawi promised to come to Iran and emphasized his support for them. After this meeting, in around 1952, a group of eighteen people visited Abdul Aziz Malazada's residence in the village of Depokur. This group was from the Tablighi Jaamat Raiwind in Pakistan, who, with the support of Abdul Aziz and other scholars in the region, engaged in preaching in Iran for three years. They were the first group of Tablighi Jaamat to enter Balochistan and the Sarbaz region. They were led by a person named Mushtaq. Nowadays, mosques in Zahedan, Iran Shahr, Khash, Saravan, Chabahar, Nikshahr and Konarak have Tablighi Jaamat circles. Through two fundamentalist movements in Iran, the revival process of Sunni Islam is ongoing, one is the Deobandi movement and the other is the Muslim Brotherhood. Scholars Prominent Deobandi scholars from Iran: Institutions Some notable Deobandi institutions in Iran: Organizations Some notable Deobandi organizations in Iran: See also Index of Deobandi movement–related articles References Further reading Deobandi movement by country Islam in Iran Islamism in Iran 20th century in Iran Modern history of Iran