The
Islam
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ic Front for Armed
Jihad
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(
French name
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, ''Front Islamique du Djihad Armé'', hence the abbreviation FIDA) was a militant
Islamist organization active during the
Algerian Civil War
The Algerian Civil War ( ar, rtl=yes, الْحَرْبُ الْأَهْلِيَّةُ الجَزَائِرِيَّةُ, al-Ḥarb al-ʾAhlīyah al-Jazāʾirīyah) was a civil war in Algeria fought between the Algerian government and various Is ...
. It called for the violent overthrow of the secular
Algeria
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n government, and a system of
government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...
based on
shari'a
Sharia (; ar, شريعة, sharīʿa ) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the religious precepts of Islam and is based on the sacred scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and the H ...
law.
On July 21, 1996, it merged under the auspices of
Mustapha Kartali Mustapha Kartali (or Kertali) was the main Islamist guerrilla leader in the Larbaa region during the Algerian Civil War.
Born in 1946, he was elected FIS mayor of Larbaa, a town south of Algiers, in 1991. After the military banned FIS, he joined ...
with the
Movement for an Islamic State (MEI) and splinter factions of the
Groupe Islamique Armée (GIA) to form the
Islamic Movement for Preaching and Jihad
Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God (or ''Allah'') as it was revealed to Muhammad, the main ...
(MIPD).
Factions of the Algerian Civil War
Jihadist groups in Algeria
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