Sayed Mansur Naderi is a leader (
Sayed of Kayan Sayed Kayan or Sayed of Kayan is a position of leadership amongst the Ismaili community in Afghanistan. The Ismaili community in Afghanistan is led by a family of ''Sayed''s (descendants of the Islamic prophet Mohammed) hailing from the village of ...
) of a
Hazara-
Ismaili
Isma'ilism ( ar, الإسماعيلية, al-ʾIsmāʿīlīyah) is a branch or sub-sect of Shia Islam. The Isma'ili () get their name from their acceptance of Imam Isma'il ibn Jafar as the appointed spiritual successor (imām) to Ja'far al-Sa ...
Shi'a community centred in
Baghlan Province
Baghlan (Dari: ''Baġlān'') is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. As of 2020, the province has a population of about 1,014,634.
Its capital is Puli Khumri, but its name comes from the other majo ...
of
Afghanistan
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. Like other Ismaili communities in Afghanistan and worldwide, the Baghlan Ismailis do submit to the spiritual leader of Ismailis worldwide, the
Agha Khan
Aga Khan ( fa, آقاخان, ar, آغا خان; also transliterated as ''Aqa Khan'' and ''Agha Khan'') is a title held by the Imām of the Nizari Ismāʿīli Shias. Since 1957, the holder of the title has been the 49th Imām, Prince Shah Karim ...
, Naderi acts as a figurehead of the local Ismailies till the socio/religious leadership structure is established in the country.
[ This community although Shia is smaller than the mainstream Twelver Shia community in Afghanistan.]
Naderi served the Afghan monarchy, later the communist government and served as vice president during Majahiden government and in the 1980s, was expelled from his region by the Taliban, and returned to Baghlan following the fall of the Taliban. He was elected to the Wolesi Jirga
The House of Representatives of the People, or Da Afghanistan Wolesi Jirga ( ps, دَ افغانستان ولسي جرګه), was the lower house of the bicameral National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, alongside the upper Hous ...
(lower house of the Afghan Parliament) in 2005, and was the founder of the Ismaili-based National Solidarity Party of Afghanistan
The National Solidarity Party of Afghanistan ( fa, حزب پيوند ملی افغانستان Hezb-e-Paiwand Mili Afghanistan, Paiwand Milli, Paiwand Mili) is a political party representing the Afghanistan's Ismaili Shia minority, largely found ...
(Paiwand Milli). His son Sayed Jafar Naderi
Sayed Jafar Naderi (born 1965) is an ethnic Hazara- Ismaili who controlled Baghlan Province of Afghanistan during the early 1990s.[Sayed Jafar Naderi
Sayed Jafar Naderi (born 1965) is an ethnic Hazara- Ismaili who controlled Baghlan Province of Afghanistan during the early 1990s.](_blank ...<br></span></div> also achieved note as a leader in Baghlan, becoming a warlord and later governor of Baghlan Province during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
His son <div class=)[Abdul Rashid Dostum
Abdul Rashid Dostum ( ; prs, عبدالرشید دوستم; Uzbek Latin: , Uzbek Cyrillic: , ; born 25 March 1954) is an Afghan exiled politician, former Marshal in the Afghan National Army, founder and leader of the political party Junbish- ...](_blank ...<br></span></div> has been appointed security advisor to Afghan first vice president <div class=)
in 2014.
Sayed Mansoor's daughter Farkhunda Zahra Naderi
Farkhunda Zahra Naderi ( prs, فرخنده زهرا نادری) is an Afghan politician and women's right activist. She is a member of the Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) chaired by Abdullah Abdullah. Previously she ...
is a well-known rights activist in Afghanistan
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and also serves as member of Afghan parliament elected in 2010 with the highest vote from Kabul province.
Sadat Mansoor Naderi
Sayed Sadat Mansoor Naderi ( prs, سید سعادت منصور نادری) (born 3 March 1977) is an entrepreneur and politician. He was Afghanistan's State Minister of Peace from 2020 to 2021 and Minister of Urban Development and Housing from 2 ...
, his another son nominated by Afghan president Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai
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Born in ...
as Urban Development minister, assumed office on April 22, 2015.
Monarchy era
During the Afghan monarchy, Sayed Mansur served as Vice President of Parliament under King Mohammed Zahir Shah
Mohammed Zahir Shah (Pashto/Dari: , 15 October 1914 – 23 July 2007) was the last king of Afghanistan, reigning from 8 November 1933 until he was deposed on 17 July 1973. Serving for 40 years, Zahir was the longest-serving ruler of Afghanistan s ...
.
Soviet era
Following the transition to the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA),, renamed the Republic of Afghanistan, in 1987, was the Afghan state during the one-party rule of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) from 1978 to 1992.
The PDPA came to power ...
and the Soviet invasion, while the Tajiks and Pashtuns of Baghlan aligned themselves with the insurgent Jamiat-e Islami
Jamayat-E-Islami (also rendered as Jamiat-e-Islami and Jamiati Islami; fa, جمعیت اسلامی افغانستان, lit=Islamic Society), sometimes shortened to Jamiat, is a predominantly Tajik political party in Afghanistan. It was origi ...
and Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin
The Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin ( fa, حزب اسلامی گلبدین; abbreviated HIG), also referred to as Hezb-e-Islami or Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), is an Afghan political party and former militia, originally founded in 1976 as Hezb-e-Isl ...
, Sayed Mansur received government funding and arms to form a local militia of his traditionally Ismaili supporters. He became a general and governor of the province with his militia reaching 13,000 troops by 1989, but at the same time secretly collaborated with insurgent groups, allowing them to operate in Baghlan provided they did not interfere with logistics transport in the region.[
]
Taliban era
During the 1990s Taliban period, Sayed Mansoor Nader and his son Jafar Naderi escaped and took refuge in Bamiyan Province
Bamyan Province ( prs, ولایت بامیان) also spelled Bamiyan, Bāmīān or Bāmyān is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the central highlands of the Afghanistan.
The terrain in Bamyan is mountainous or semi-m ...
, a heavily Shi'a (though non-Ismaili) area, while sending other family members to France.[ Mansoor apparently later took refuge in Uzbekistan, as he returned from there to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, in 2002.]
See also
* Sayed Jafar Naderi
Sayed Jafar Naderi (born 1965) is an ethnic Hazara- Ismaili who controlled Baghlan Province of Afghanistan during the early 1990s.[Sadat Mansoor Naderi
Sayed Sadat Mansoor Naderi ( prs, سید سعادت منصور نادری) (born 3 March 1977) is an entrepreneur and politician. He was Afghanistan's State Minister of Peace from 2020 to 2021 and Minister of Urban Development and Housing from 2 ...](_blank ...<br></span></div>
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* Farkhunda Zahra Naderi
Farkhunda Zahra Naderi ( prs, فرخنده زهرا نادری) is an Afghan politician and women's right activist. She is a member of the Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) chaired by Abdullah Abdullah. Previously she ...
* Sayed Kayan Sayed Kayan or Sayed of Kayan is a position of leadership amongst the Ismaili community in Afghanistan. The Ismaili community in Afghanistan is led by a family of ''Sayed''s (descendants of the Islamic prophet Mohammed) hailing from the village of ...
References
External links
Sayed Kayan official site
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Afghan Ismailis
Governors of Baghlan Province
Living people
1936 births
Hazara politicians
20th-century Ismailis
21st-century Ismailis