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The Azerbaijan Islamic Party (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan İslam Partiyası; AİP) is a banned Islamist party in Azerbaijan. The party was founded in 1991 in the town of Nardaran, which lies northeast of the capital Baku on the Absheron Peninsula. Nardaran is a stronghold of conservative Shi'a Islam in predominantly secular and nationalistic Azerbaijan. The party 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. 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 was partly under Armenian occupation. It was fiercely opposed and advocated a ban of proselytism and Christian missionary activities.
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 government of Azerbaijan accused the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan of being covertly financed by Iran, which Azerbaijan regarded as an interference in its domestic affairs, and which is illegal under Azerbaijani law. Therefore, the leaders of the party were arrested and the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan was officially banned. Subsequently under the updated secular laws of Azerbaijan, Islamist parties and the formation of Islamist parties were banned.
On 7 October 2011, Samadov was sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of attempts to set up a criminal group to plan terror attacks and to overthrow the government.




See also


Islamic Resistance Movement of Azerbaijan
List of Islamic political parties
Islam in Azerbaijan
Religion in Azerbaijan




References






External links


Azerbaijan Islamic Party on Facebook (in Azerbaijani)

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