Mawlawi Afzal

Mawlawi Afzal was an Afghan clergyman from Barg-i-Matal, Nuristan Province, who studied in Deoband, India. He later studied at Akora, Pakistan, before teaching at a madrassa in Karachi, and then in his native village of Badmuk.^[1]

Following the Saur Revolution of 1978 in Afghanistan, Afzal established a Salafist mini-state in Nuristan, known as the Islamic Revolutionary State of Afghanistan, with consulates in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.^[2]

References

1. ^ Olivier Roy (September 1995). Afghanistan: from holy war to civil war. Darwin Press. ISBN 9780878500765. http://books.google.com/books?id=ygFuAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 29 March 2011. 
2. ^ Robert D. Crews; Amin Tarzi (15 May 2009). The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Harvard University Press. pp. 338–. ISBN 9780674032248. http://books.google.com/books?id=wUEMBOA4BbsC&pg=PA338. Retrieved 29 March 2011.