Islamic Party of Azerbaijan

Islamic Party of Azerbaijan
Leader Movsum Samadov
Founder Alikram Aliyev
Founded 1991
Dissolved 1995
Ideology Islamism
Website
"Official" page on Facebook
(Azerbaijani)

The Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan İslam Partiyası or AİP) was an Islamic party in Azerbaijan. The Islamic Party of Azerbaijan was founded in 1991 in the town of Nardaran, which lies northeast of the capital Baku on the Absheron Peninsula, and is a lone stronghold of conservative Shi'a Islam in staunchly secular and religiously progressive Azerbaijan, and was officially registered in 1992. Its registration, however, was cancelled in 1995, and has not been reinstated since.

It advocated stronger ties with Iran and even proclaiming the state of Azerbaijan into an Islamic Republic as it rejected the ideas of pan-Turkism, regarding them as dangerous and utopian.[1] Nevertheless it was also an Azerbaijani nationalist party and was known for its fiery nationalist and anti-Armenian rhetoric and frequently advocated a military solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict which is currently under Armenian occupation.[2] It was fiercely opposed and advocated a ban of proselytism and Christian missionary activities.[3]

The party was also anti-US, anti-Zionist and anti-EU and supported Hezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah. The leader of the party was Movsum Samadov.

In 1995, the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan and the Islamic Republic of Iran were respectively accused by the government of Azerbaijan of being covertly financed by some people in Iran, and Iran of covertly financing it, which Azerbaijan regarded as an interference in its domestic affairs, and which is illegal under Azerbaijani law. Therefore, the leaders of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan were arrested and the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan was officially banned. Subsequently under the updated secular laws of Azerbaijan, Islamic parties and the formation of Islamic parties are now banned.[4] On 7 October 2011, Haci Movsum Samadov, one of the leaders of the defunct Islamic Party of Azerbaijan was sentenced to 12 years in jail.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ Jamestown.org Publications
  2. ↑ ISLAMIC PARTY OF AZERBAIJAN FOR MILITARY SOLUTION OF KARABAKH PROBLEM
  3. ↑ Article: AZERBAIJAN: AZERBAIJAN'S ISLAMIC PARTY WANTS CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES BANNED.(Brief Article)
  4. ↑ Article: Where We Stand Now by Ilham Aliyev
  5. ↑ Azeri Islamic party leader sentenced to 12 years in jail AzerNews.az

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