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Burhanuddin Rabbani
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Burhanuddin Rabbani was an Afghan politician who served as President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 2001, a period that included the rise of the Taliban and the country's civil conflict. He matters as a significant figure in modern Afghan history whose presidency shaped the nation during one of its most turbulent eras.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Afghanistan
- Place of birth
- Fayzabad
- Place of death
- Kabul
- Child
- Salahuddin Rabbani
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Al-Azhar University
- Employer
- Kabul University
- Political party
- United National Front
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Conflict
- Afghan Conflict
- Image
- Burhanuddin Rabbani Cropped DVIDS.jpg
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- Burhanuddin Rabbani
- date of birth
- 1940-09-20
- date of death
- 2011-09-20
- manner of death
- homicide
- name in native language
- برهان الدین رباني
- place of burial
- Kabul
- relative
- Ahmad Zia Massoud
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Burhanuddin Rabbani (20 September 1940 – 20 September 2011) was an Afghan politician and teacher who served as the sixth president of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996, and again from November to December 2001 (in exile from 1996 to 2001).
Born in the Badakhshan Province, Rabbani studied at Kabul University and worked there as a professor of Islamic theology. He formed the Jamiat-e Islami at the university which attracted then-students Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Ahmad Shah Massoud, both would eventually become the two leading commanders of the Afghan mujahideen in the Soviet–Afghan War from 1979. Rabbani was chosen to be the President of Afghanistan after the end of the former communist regime in 1992. Rabbani and his Islamic State of Afghanistan government was later forced into exile by the Taliban, and he then served as the political head of the Northern Alliance, an alliance of various political groups who fought against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. During his time in the office, there were a lot of internal clashes between different fighting groups.
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