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Hezb-e-Islami (also Hezb-e Islami, Hezb-i-Islami, Hezbi-Islami, Hezbi Islami), lit. Islamic Party,[1] was an Islamist organization that was commonly known for fighting the Communist Government of Afghanistan and their close ally the Soviet Union.Template:Citation needed Founded and led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, it was established in Afghanistan in 1975.Template:Citation needed
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.[2] Its membership was drawn from ethnic Pashtuns, and its ideology from the Muslim Brotherhood and Abul Ala Maududi's Jamaat-e-Islami.[2] 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.[3]
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.Template:Citation needed Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's faction is since then referred to as the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, or HIG.
See also
Sources
- ↑ Hizb-i-Islami (Islamic Party). Federation of American Scientists(August 8, 1998). Retrieved March 13, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Columbia World Dictionary of Islamism{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Columbia University Press(2007)
- ↑ Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Carnegie Endowment.(2005). ISBN 9780870032851