Muslim Youth

Muslim Youth

Muslim Youth (Persian: سازمان جوانان مسلمان [Sazman-i Jawanan-i Musulman], Arabic: نهضة الشباب المسلم‎ [Nahdat al-Shibab al-Muslim]) was an underground Islamist group founded in 1969 in Kabul by several Afghan junior professors and a handful of students at Kabul University. Many of the leading figures of the Afghan-Soviet war were members of this group, including Burhanuddin Rabbani, `Abd al-Rabb Rasul Sayyaf, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Ahmed Shah Massoud.

History

The Muslim Youth Organization was founded in 1969 in Kabul, at a critical point in Afghanistan's history, with proponents of communism and Qutb-inspired Islamism vying fiercely to gain supremacy in determining the direction of the state and society. Kabul University was a center of this conflict, with both Marxists and Islamists on the faculty and corresponding student organizations dedicated to the respective ideologies. One professor of the Shar`ia faculty (the department for the study of Islamic law), the future mujahidin leader Burhanuddin Rabbani, had recently translated Sayyid Qutb's Milestones (Ma`alim fi'l-tariq) into Dari and was teaching this text at the University.

It was in this context that the Muslim Youth Organization was formed, and at its founding Rabbani was named its chaiman, Sayyaf its vice-chairman, and Gulbudding Hekmatyar - though still in prison for the murder of a Maoist student - its political director. The group, in this form anyway, was short-lived; when the recently-formed government of Sardar Mohammed Daoud cracked down on Islamists in 1974, all of the Muslim Youth leaders fled to Pakistan and the Organization itself ceased to exist. Its leaders continued to pursue its mission, however, and went on to lead a successful insurgency war against the Marxist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, backed by the Soviet Union, between 1979 and 1989.

References

Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. New York: Penguin, 2004.

Roy, Olivier. Afghanistan: From Holy War to Civil War. Princeton, NJ: Darwin University Press, 1995

Idem. Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Rubin, Barnett R. The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

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