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He is the founder of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan ( Harakat-I Islami-yi Afghanistan ).1He was born in Kandahar to an ethnic Tajik Shia family. He studied in Najaf , Iraq and became an Ayatollah .2In the 1960s he founded a movement called Subh-i Danish (Dawn of Knowledge), whose political and cultural revival program enjoyed some popularity among the Shia youth of Kabul. He founded Harakat-I Islami-yi Afghanistan in 1978. The group later played an important role in the 1980 rebellion against the communist regime. Because he was a disciple of Ayatollah Khui , a rival of Khomeini , Muhsini did not have a good relation with Khomeini's entourage, and he was even arrested in August 1980 in Iran, and the offices of the party in Tehran were closed down, after the Iranians claimed he was being financed by the CIA. Among the anti-communist resistance movements, Harakat espoused a moderate islamist line, which brought it close to the sunni Jamiat Islami faction, that had a similar outlook. Of all the Shia parties, Muhsini's movement was the most effective military force, and the only one that took part in active combat against communist and Soviet troops. He later joined the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (Northern Alliance) against the Taliban . The fragmentation of Afghanistan: State formation and collapse in the international system . Islam and resistance in Afghanistan .3
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Ayatollah Muhammad Asif Muhsini (Sheik Muhsini) is the founder of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan ( Harakat-I Islami-yi Afghanistan ). Born in 1935 in Kandahar , he studied in Najaf , Iraq and became an Ayatollah . He founded Harakat-I Islami-yi Afghanistan in 1978 . The group later played a large role in the 1980 rebellion against the communist regime and fought in the Northern Alliance (United Front) against the Taliban . Ayatollah Muhsini has written more than 20 books about Islam . v t e
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Ayatollah Muhammad Asif Mohseni ( ) (Sheik Mohseni) (born 1936) is widely considered to be the most powerful Twelver shiite cleric in Afghanistan. He is the founder of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan ( Harakat-I Islami-yi Afghanistan ). With strong links to Iran, he is a Qizilbash born in the Pashtun region of Kandahar to an ethnic Tajik Shia family. He studied in Najaf , Iraq and became an Ayatollah .
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Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Asif Mohseni ( ) (Sheik Mohseni) (26 April 1935 – 5 August 2019) was widely considered to be the most powerful Twelver shia Marja' in Afghanistan. He was the founder of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan ( Harakat-I Islami-yi Afghanistan ). With strong links to Iran, he was a Shia Pashtun .He was born in the city of Kandahar , Afghanistan .He studied in seminars of Najaf under Grand Ayatollah Abul Qasim Khoei , Muhsin al-Hakim and Abdul A'la Sabzwari .
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He was the founder of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan .
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Afghan Twelver Shi'a Marja' (1935–2019) Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Asif Mohseni ( Persian : آیتالله العظمی محمد آصف محسنی ; 26 April 1935 – 5 August 2019) was an Afghan Twelver Shi'a Marja' , widely considered to have been the most powerful in Afghanistan. He was the founder of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan .
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founder of the islamic movement of afghanistan
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afghan twelver shi'a marja'
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