Azerbaijan Islamic Party
Azerbaijan Islamic Party Azərbaycan İslam Partiyası | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Movsum Samadov |
| Founder | Alikram Aliyev |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Banned | 1995 |
| Newspaper | Yeni Nabz ("New Pulse") |
| Ideology | Shia Islamism Azerbaijani nationalism |
| Religion | Shia Islam |
The Azerbaijan Islamic Party (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan İslam Partiyası; AİP) is a banned Shia Islamist organization in Azerbaijan. The political 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 Shia Islam in predominantly secular Azerbaijan. The party was officially registered in 1992. Its registration, however, was cancelled in 1995, and has not been reinstated since.