1975–1979 primarily Pashtun Islamist political party in Afghanistan
Hezb-e-Islami (also Hezb-e Islami , Hezb-i-Islami , Hezbi-Islami , Hezbi Islami ), lit. Islamic Party ,[ 1] Islamist organization that was commonly known for fighting the Communist Government of Afghanistan and their close ally the Soviet Union .[citation needed Founded and led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar , it was established in Afghanistan in 1976.[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] Pashtuns , and its ideology from the Muslim Brotherhood and Abul Ala Maududi's Jamaat-e-Islami .[ 2] 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 .[citation needed Gulbuddin Hekmatyar 's faction is since then referred to as the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin , or HIG.
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