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Harakat-i Inqilab-i Islami [ID 700]

Islamic Revolutionary Movement Founded by Muhammad Nabi Muhammedi, Khalifa, Mullah, chief of a madrassa in the Lugar province Chairman: Muhammad Nabi Muhammedi Party members: Sunnites, initially Pashtuns and Tajiks, but the latter increasingly defect to Jami'at. Important supporters are Mullahs [clerical teachers] and Taliban [students of the Koran]. Many of the future leaders of the “Taliban” originally were commanding Mujaheddin of the Harakat-i Inqilab. Regions: Southern and western Afghanistan (provinces: Lugar, Ghazni and Helmand) Orientation: conservative-traditionalist

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