Mir Ahmad Shah

Mir Ahmad Shah Rizwani (d. 1978) was an Afghan Islamist intellectual and military general, who led a 1976 coup against the Afghan government, and was later executed after the 1978 communist takeover of the country. Due to his prominence and influence as a scholar, he had been brought into the government fold and given the title of Firqa Meshir, chief of the army.[1] Rizwani was a follower of Islamic scholar Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani, and headed his own Islamist group, mainly composed of army personnel, called Qiyam-i Islami (Islamic Uprising), which plotted an abortive 1976 coup against the government of President Mohammed Daoud Khan.[2] The coup was preempted; Rizwani and 50 of his associates were arrested on 9 December 1976, and Rizwani executed in 1978 following the communist takeover.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Bahaudin Ghulam Mujtaba (December 2006). Afghanistan: Realities of War and Rebuilding. Ilead Academy. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-9774211-1-4.
  2. ↑ Barry M. Rubin (2010). Guide to Islamist Movements. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 181–. ISBN 978-0-7656-4138-0.
  3. ↑ Hafizullah Emadi (14 September 2010). Dynamics of Political Development in Afghanistan: The British, Russian, and American Invasions. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 134–. ISBN 978-0-230-11200-1.
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