Revolutionary Council of Islamic Unity of Afghanistan

Revolutionary Council of Islamic Unity of Afghanistan
شوراء انقلاب اتفاق اسلامی افغانستان
Šūrā-e-Inqilābī-e-Ittifāq-e-Islāmī Afğānistān
LeaderSayyid Ali Beheshti
FoundedSeptember 1979
Dissolved1989
Merged intoHezbe Wahdat
Ideology
ReligionShia Islam
National affiliationTehran Eight (from 1987)
International affiliationIslamic Republican Party
Revolutionary Council of Islamic Unity of Afghanistan
LeadersSayyid Ali Beheshti
Dates of operationSeptember 1979-1989
IdeologyShia Islamism
Hazara nationalism
Part ofTehran Eight
Allies Iran
OpponentsSoviet Union Soviet Union
Afghanistan Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

The Revolutionary Council of Islamic Unity of Afghanistan (Persian: شوراء انقلاب اتفاق اسلامی افغانستان, Shura-i Engelab-i Ettefaq-i Islami Afghanistan, often called simply Shura) was a Hazara political movement which appeared in Afghanistan in 1979 in opposition to the increasingly leftist Kabul government. The movement was led by Sayyid Ali Beheshti.[1]

The Shura had both political and militant arms, and removed many Kabul-backed authorities within the Hazarajat (Hazara-populated region of Afghanistan), replacing them with their own functionaries.The Shura was considered as a government for the whole Hazarajat and used to be a powerful party among the Hazaras.[2] By the end of 1983 the Shura controlled 60% of the population of the Hazarajat.[3]

The Shura was the primary Hazara resistance movement part of the Tehran Eight political constellation, followed by the Al-Nasr (Victory) and the Union of Islamic Fighters.[4]

References

  1. ^ J. Bruce Amstutz . Afghanistan: The First Five Years of Soviet Occupation . DIANE Publishing, 1994. ISBN 0-7881-1111-6, ISBN 978-0-7881-1111-2
  2. ^ Sarabi, Humayun, "Politics and modern history of Hazara: Secterian Politics in Afghanistan", Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy Thesis, SECTARIAN POLITICS IN AFGHANISTAN, p. 52, retrieved 2023-05-02
  3. ^ J. Bruce Amstutz . Afghanistan: The First Five Years of Soviet Occupation . DIANE Publishing, 1994. ISBN 0-7881-1111-6, ISBN 978-0-7881-1111-2
  4. ^ J. Bruce Amstutz . Afghanistan: The First Five Years of Soviet Occupation. DIANE Publishing, 1994. ISBN 0-7881-1111-6, ISBN 978-0-7881-1111-2
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