Jamiat-e Islami

The Jamiat -i Islami -yi Afghanistan (Persian جمعيت اسلامی افغانستان, Islamic Association of Afghanistan ') is a mainly ethnic Tajiks dominated Afghan party. It belongs next to the Ittahād -i Islami, Hizb -i Islami ( Hekmatyar ) and the Hizb -i Islami ( Caliph ) to the four major Islamist -oriented parties Afghanistan.

Foundation

The roots of the group lie in the 1960s at the Faculty of Islamic Theology at Kabul University: Some theologians to Ghulam Mohammed Niyazi, who had studied at Al- Azhar University in Cairo, discussed in informal groups the way for an Islamic society. Influenced by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood finally founded in 1968, the Jamiat -i Islami.

The political leadership of the Jamiat -i Islami took Burhanuddin Rabbani, also a graduate of Al -Azhar, who headed it until his assassination on 20 September 2011. 1969 joined the Jamiat with the Islamist forces in the engineering department, including Gulbuddin Hekmatyar together. In the years 1975-1977 there was, however, again to split the Islamist movement in the Jamiat -i Islami of Rabbani at the top and the Hizb -i Islami, led by Hekmatyar.