Ismael Balkhi
Allama Sayed Isma'el Balkhi علامه سید اسماعیل بلخی | |
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Allama Balkhi | |
Born | Sayed Ismael 1918 Balkhab, Sar-e Pol Province,Afghanistan |
Died | 14 July 1968(1968-07-14) (aged 49–50) Kabul, Afghanistan |
Burial place | Kabul |
Nationality | Afghan |
Occupation(s) | Writer, poet, intellectual, politician |
Political party | حذب ارشاد Guidance Party |
Sayed Isma'el Balkhi (Dari: سید اسماعیل بلخی) (1918 –14 July 1968) was one of the most prominent Hazara reformist leaders in 20th-century Afghanistan.[1] As a poet, mystic and a political leader, Balkhi is considered the figurehead of modern Hazara history.[2]
Life
Early life
Sayed Ismael Balkhi was born in 1918 in Balkhab district, Sar-e Pol province in Northern Afghanistan. He received early education in Afghanistan after which he traveled to Iraq for further studies in Islamic theology and jurisprudence. At the time when Balkhi left the country, the Afghan government did not have standards of higher education that other muslim countries had. Balkhi was a Shia by religion and thus associated with the greater Hazara community. Balkhi was introduced to reformist movements popular at that time in the Middle East. He imported these intellectual enhancements back to his home region in Afghanistan and became a preacher.
Career
A religious activist, Balkhi was concerned during the liberal late 1940s period in Afghanistan, eventually becoming a political radical. In 1949, Balkhi plotted with at least five associates a coup d'etat against King Mohammad Zahir Shah (or, more specifically, an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Shah Mahmud Khan). The plan was foiled, and Balkhi spent some years in prison under the charges of conspiring to overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic.[3] The dynamism of Balkhi's personality is that he got his education in an environment (i.e. Iraq) where clerics were either turned into radical revolutionaries like Khomeini and Khamenei or into self-absorbed mystics or study-oriented scholars. He was an exception among all such individuals. Ismael Balkhi was a mystic; he was heavily influenced by Mawlana Jalaluddin Balkhi but in the meantime, he was not unaware of his society. Similarly, Balkhi believed in political change but he never embraced any terrorist ideology or even internationalist approach. He wrote several nationalistic poems whilst in prison.
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- tasnimnews.com/در «پگاه بیداری»؛ درک و دریافتی از اشعار علامه سید اسماعیل بلخی
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