Afghanistan - Jamiat-i-Islami (Islamic Society)

The Jamiat-i-Islami (Islamic Society) is influenced by the thinking of Pakistani theologian Abul Ala Maududi and Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb. It is the party of the current official but diminutive government of Rabbani and Massoud. Afghan Islam began on the campus of Kabul University in the mid-1960s as a reaction to the Marxist trend among the students. The professor trained at Cairo's Al-Azhar University, Burhanuddin Rabbani, attracting students of science, engineering and medicine. Hekmatyar (Kabul University) and Massoud (Kabul Polytechnic) were both engineering students who began their political careers on Kabul campuses. The party of Rabbani and Massoud pushes a revolutionary but modern form of Islam.

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