{{Short description|1975–1979 primarily Pashtun Islamist political party in Afghanistan}} {{other uses|Islamic party}} {{Infobox political party | 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 = {{party color|Hezbi Islami}} | founded = 1976 | predecessor = Muslim Youth | successor = HIG<br />HIK<br />HIKF | ideology = Islamism | flag = 200px|border | website = | state = Afghanistan }}
'''Hezb-e-Islami''' (also spelled ''Hezb-e Islami'', ''Hezb-i-Islami'', ''Hezbi-Islami'', ''Hezbi Islami'', {{Literal translation|'''Islamic Party'''}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/hizbi-islami.htm |title=Hizb-i-Islami (Islamic Party) |publisher=Federation of American Scientists |work=Intelligence Resource Program |date=August 8, 1998 |access-date=March 13, 2012 |author=Pike, John}}</ref>) was an Islamist organization that was commonly known for fighting the Communist Government of Afghanistan and their close ally the Soviet Union.{{Citation needed|date=February 2018}} Founded and led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, it was established in Afghanistan in 1976.{{Citation needed|date=February 2018}}
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.<ref name="CWDI" /> Its membership was drawn from ethnic Pashtuns, and its ideology from the Muslim Brotherhood and Abul Ala Maududi's Jamaat-e-Islami.<ref name="CWDI">{{cite book |last2=Sfeir |first2=Antoine|last1=Roy |first1=Oliver |title=The Columbia World Dictionary of Islamism |publisher=Columbia University Press |date=2007|page=132}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Haqqani-173">{{cite book|last1=Haqqani |first1=Husain|title=Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military|date=2005|publisher=Carnegie Endowment.|pages=173|isbn=9780870032851|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nYppZ_dEjdIC&q=Jamiat-e+Islami+afghanistan&pg=PA171|access-date=2 November 2014}}</ref>
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.{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}} Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's faction is since then referred to as the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, or HIG.
==See also== *Amin Karim senior board member
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== External links == *[https://web.archive.org/web/20040405164450/http://atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/FC11Ag02.html Sedra, Mark. "The Taliban still larger than life"], ''Asia Times Online'', 2004-03-11. *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090212114714/http://afghan-web.com/politics/parties.html Afghanistan online. Political parties/groups and leaders in Afghanistan] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20170305012604/http://www.dia.mil/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=43BWsnvesZc%3d&tabid=7068&portalid=27&mid=14146 Declassified October 8, 2002 Report] by DIA {{refend}} {{Political parties in Afghanistan}}
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