Nizam-e-Islam Party
Nizam-e-Islam Party | |
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| Founder | Athar Ali Bengali |
| Founded | 1952 |
| Split from | Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam |
| Student wing | Bangladesh Islami Chatra Samaj |
| Ideology | Islamism |
| Islam in Bangladesh |
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The Nizam-e-Islam Party (Bengali: নেজামে ইসলাম পার্টি, lit. 'Order of Islam Party'), is a religious-political party in Bangladesh and Pakistan. 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.