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Hezbi Islami

1975–1979 primarily Pashtun Islamist political party in Afghanistan

Summary

1975–1979 primarily Pashtun Islamist political party in Afghanistan

Field	Value
name	Hezbi Islami
native_name	د افغانستان اسلامي حزب
dissolved	1979
native_name_lang	fa
logo	Hezbi Islami.svg
logo_size	250px
founder	Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
colorcode
founded	1976
predecessor	Muslim Youth
successor	HIG
HIK
HIKF
ideology	Islamism
flag	[[File:Flag of Hezbi Islami.svg	200px	border]]
state	Afghanistan

HIK HIKF

Hezb-e-Islami (also spelled Hezb-e Islami, Hezb-i-Islami, Hezbi-Islami, Hezbi Islami, ) was an Islamist organization that was commonly known for fighting the Communist Government of Afghanistan and their close ally the Soviet Union. Founded and led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, it was established in Afghanistan in 1976.

It grew out of the Muslim Youth organization, an Islamist organization founded in Kabul by students and teachers at Kabul University in 1969 to combat communism in Afghanistan. Its membership was drawn from ethnic Pashtuns, and its ideology from the Muslim Brotherhood and Abul Ala Maududi's Jamaat-e-Islami. Another source describes it as having splintered away from Burhanuddin Rabbani's original Islamist party, Jamiat-e Islami, in 1976, after Hekmatyar found that group too moderate and willing to compromise with others.

In 1979, Mulavi Younas Khalis split with Hekmatyar and established his own Hezbi Islami, known as the Khalis faction, with its power base in Nangarhar. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's faction is since then referred to as the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, or HIG.

Sources

References

Pike, John. (August 8, 1998). "Hizb-i-Islami (Islamic Party)". Federation of American Scientists.
(2007). "The Columbia World Dictionary of Islamism". [[Columbia University Press]].
(2005). "Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military". Carnegie Endowment..

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