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{{Infobox political party
| name = Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan
| native_name = {{lang-ru|Партия исламского возрождения Таджикистана}} [[Tajik language|Tajik]]: Ҳизби Наҳзати Исломии Тоҷикистон حزب نهضت اسلامی تاجیکستان
| logo = Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan logo.png
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| colorcode = #224272
| abbreviation = IRP or IRPT
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| leader1_title = Chairman
| leader1_name = [[Muhiddin Kabiri]]
| leader2_title = Deputy Chairman
| leader2_name = Sayidumara Husayn<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nahzat.tj/russian/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1070:genprokuratura-husayni&Itemid=586|title=Генпрокуратура не видит состава преступления в нападении на депутата С.Хусайни|author=Масъули сомона|work=www.nahzat.tj|access-date=8 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716094504/http://nahzat.tj/russian/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1070%3Agenprokuratura-husayni&Itemid=586|archive-date=16 July 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| founded = {{start date|1990}}
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| banned = 2015
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| newspaper = ''{{ill|Najot|tg|Рӯзномаи «Наҷот»}}'' ("''Salvation''")
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| membership_year = 2015
| membership = 40,000 (claimed)
| ideology = [[Islamism]] [[Islamic democracy]] [[Social conservatism]] [[Religious nationalism]]
| position = [[Right-wing politics|Right-wing]] to [[Far-right politics|far-right]]
| religion = [[Islam]]
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| international = [[Muslim Brotherhood]]
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| state = Tajikistan
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| blank1 = Designated as a terrorist organization by: {{Flag|Tajikistan}}
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The '''Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan'''{{efn|Also known as the '''Islamic Renaissance of Tajikistan''', the '''Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan''', the '''Islamic Party of Revival''', or simply the '''Islamic Renaissance Party'''.}} ({{lang-ru|Партия исламского возрождения Таджикистана}}; {{lang-tg|Ҳизби Наҳзати Исломии Тоҷикистон}} ''Hizbi Nahzati Islomii Tojikiston''; {{lang-fa|حزب نهضت اسلامی تاجیکستان}}) is a banned [[Islamism|Islamist]] [[political party]] in [[Tajikistan]]. Until 2015, it was the only legal Islamist party in [[Central Asia]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Mountain Rigger |url=http://www.economist.com/node/8148621 |magazine=[[The Economist]] |date=11 November 2006}}</ref>

== History ==
The party was founded in 1990. In 1992, it hosted a conference in [[Saratov]], [[Russia]], attended by Islamists from ex-Soviet central Asia, [[Tatarstan]] and [[Bashkortostan]]. When Tajikistan became independent, the party was banned in 1993. It fought with the [[United Tajik Opposition]] and the [[Garmi people]] against the government during the [[Civil War in Tajikistan|Tajik Civil War]] but was legalised following peace accords in 1998. In 1999 it was the second largest party in Tajikistan.

The party's long-running leader, [[Said Abdullo Nuri]], died in August 2006 of [[cancer]]. The party boycotted the [[2006 Tajik presidential election|2006 presidential election]].

At the [[legislative]] [[elections in Tajikistan|elections]] held 27 February and 13 March 2005 the party won 8% of the popular vote and 2 out of 63 seats.

At the [[2015 Tajikistani parliamentary election|elections]] held on 1 March 2015 the Party failed to surpass the 5% vote barrier, losing its only 2 seats in Parliament.

The party was deregistered by Tajikistan's interior ministry in 2015 and then banned a month later, after being designated as a [[terrorist organization]] by the country's Supreme Court. Two of the party's leaders were subsequently sentenced to life in prison by the Supreme Court, after being accused of being linked to an alleged failed [[coup d'état]] attempt led by former deputy Defence Minister [[Abduhalim Nazarzoda]], who was killed alongside several dozen of his supporters while attempting to forcefully take control over a police station. The party denied being linked to Nazarzoda's attack.<ref>{{cite news|first=Casey|last=Michel|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/11/trouble-tajikistan-151104085616528.html|title=Trouble in Tajikistan: Analysts say the banning of a moderate Islamist party could unravel the country's post-civil war order|newspaper=Al Jazeera|date=5 November 2015|access-date=23 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/02/tajikistan-human-rights-fears-banned-irpt-party-leaders-jailed-life|title=Tajikistan human rights fears as banned party's ex-leaders jailed for life|newspaper=The Guardian|agency=Reuters|date=2 June 2016|access-date=23 February 2017}}</ref>

A year after its ban, a [[2016 Tajik constitutional referendum|2016 Tajik constitutional amendment]] prohibited the establishment of any political party based on a religious platform, effectively preempting any attempt to reorganize the party.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-tajikistan-referendum-idAFKCN0VJ0IU|title=Tajiks to vote in 'president-for-life' referendum|date=10 February 2016|work=Reuters|access-date=11 March 2020|language=en}}</ref>

In a 15 August 2018 ''[[Washington Post]]'' story, regional expert Paul Stronski, a Senior Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program at the [[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]], said a 31 July 2018 [[Terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan|attack on seven Western cyclists in Tajikistan]] was being blamed on members of the party even though [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|ISIL]] claimed responsibility for the attack.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/were-the-american-cyclists-killed-in-tajikistan-naive-for-traveling-there/2018/08/14/f8212ca8-9b36-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html|title=Were the American cyclists killed in Tajikistan naive for traveling there?|work=Washington Post|access-date=16 August 2018}}</ref> Other news reports noted that the five attackers appeared in a video released by ISIL after the attack pledging allegiance to the group and its leader [[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/washington-dc-couple-american-cyclists-tajikistan-isis-lauren-geoghegan-jay-austin/|title=D.C. couple killed in ISIS-claimed attack were cycling around world|work=CBS News|access-date=16 August 2018}}</ref>

In 2018, the IRPT, whose leaders were by then based largely out of [[Poland]], became one of the founding organizations of National Alliance of Tajikistan, an opposition coalition of four Tajik political movements.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/tajik-dissidents-attempt-challenge-ruling-class-poland-181026134506650.html|title= Tajik dissidents attempt to challenge ruling class from Poland|work= Malgosia Krakowska, Al Jazeera|access-date= 28 November 2018}}</ref>

== Claims of state pressure ==
In April 2014, the party denounced official harassment and alleged government attempts to undermine their credibility and electoral chances, as parliamentary elections were scheduled in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://iwpr.net/global-voices/tajikistans-islamic-opposition-under-pressure|title=Tajikistan's Islamic Opposition Under Pressure|work=Institute for War and Peace Reporting|access-date=8 September 2015}}</ref>

In the runup to 1 March 2015 legislative elections, a wide-ranging government-induced campaign, to demonize the party and bar its candidates from entering the contest, was reported.<ref name="Eurasianet2015_1">[http://www.eurasianet.org/node/72291 Tajikistan’s Feeble Opposition Attacked Relentlessly Ahead of Weekend Vote] - Edward Lemon, EurasiaNet, 26 February 2015</ref>

On 28 August 2015, the government of Tajikistan demanded the party halt its "illegal activities" as it attempted to hold a party congress.<ref>{{cite news |last=Borisov |first=Akbar |date=28 August 2015|title=Tajikistan's Islamic opposition party faces ban amid crackdown |url=https://news.yahoo.com/tajikistans-islamic-opposition-party-faces-ban-amid-crackdown-183932617.html |work=Yahoo News |agency=AFP |access-date=8 September 2015}}</ref> The party claimed that the government was attempting to close it down.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/qishloq-ovozi-demise-of-tajik-islamic-party/27227509.html|title=The Demise Of Tajikistan's Islamic Party|work=RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty|access-date=8 September 2015}}</ref>

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.nahzat.org}}
* [http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/tajikistan/islamic-renaissance-party.php Olimova, Saodat and Muzaffar Olimov. "The Islamic Renaissance Party" Conciliation Resources (March 2001)]
* [http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/tajik-dissidents-attempt-challenge-ruling-class-poland-181026134506650.html]

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