Islamic Emirate of Badakhshan
The Islamic Emirate of Badakhshan was an unrecognized Islamic state ruled by Sharia law in modern day Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.
Islamic Emirate of Badakhshan امارت اسلامی بدخشان | |
|---|---|
| 1996 | |
 | |
| Status | Unrecognized independent state |
| Capital and largest city | Badakhshan, Afghanistan |
| Religion | Salafi Sunni Islam |
| Demonym(s) | Badakhshani |
| Government | Unitary Islamic emirate |
| Emir | |
• 1996 | Mawlawi Shariqi |
| History | |
• Established | 1996 |
• Disestablished | 1996 |
| Currency | Afghan afghani (de facto) |
| Today part of |  Afghanistan |
History
The area was controlled by forces loyal to the Tajik leaders Burhanuddin Rabbani and Ahmad Shah Massoud during the 1990s, who were de facto the national government until 1996. Badakhshan was the only province which did not fall under Taliban control from 1996 to 2001. But during the war which was going on, an ethnic Tajik, Mawlawi Shariqi, established a non-Taliban Islamic emirate, by the Islamic Revolutionary State of Afghanistan in neighboring Nuristan. During the 2010s, Taliban insurgents attacked and took control of the province. The Islamic Emirate of Badakhshan was a Salafi Tajik state which was ruled by Sharia. It was established around the same time that the Islamic Emirate of Kunar and the IRSA were established, although "none of these states were able to grow by incorporating other areas and all three collapsed quickly".[1][2][3][4]
See also
References
- "The 2015 Insurgency in the North (2): Badakhshan's Jurm district under siege". 14 September 2015.
- Victory Point, pg 69
- Osman, Borhan (2020). Salafism in Afghanistan and the Emergence of ISKP: A Brief History. US Institute of Peace. p. 2.
- Syed, M. H. (2002). Islamic Terrorism: Myth Or Reality (2 ed.). Global Media, 1900. p. 60. ISBN 9788178351407.