Nizam-e-Islam Party

Nizam-e-Islam Party
FounderAthar Ali Bengali
Founded1952
Split fromJamiat Ulema-e-Islam
Student wingBangladesh Islami Chatra Samaj
IdeologyIslamism

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.