Nizam-e-Islam Party | |
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President | Izharul Islam Chowdhury[1] |
Founder | Athar Ali Bengali |
Founded | 1952 |
Ideology | Islamism |
International affiliation | Muslim League |
Islam in Bangladesh |
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The Nizam-e-Islam Party or simply Nizam-e-Islam (Bengali: নেজামে ইসলাম, lit. 'Order of Islam'), is a religious-political party in Bangladesh and Pakistan.[2] The party was founded in the city of Kishoreganj in 1952, by the Islamic scholars of erstwhile East Bengal, Pakistan as an offshoot of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam. It was one of the four political parties belonging to the United Front alliance which defeated the Muslim League in the 1954 elections.[3]