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Burhanuddin Rabbani

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Afghanistan politician, former President of Afghanistan (1992-2001)

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Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940–2011) was an Afghan politician, pedagogue, and university teacher who served as the President of Afghanistan. Born in Fayzabad, he held citizenship in both Afghanistan and the Kingdom of Afghanistan. He was a member of the Jamiat-e Islami and the United National Front. Rabbani was educated at Kabul University and Al-Azhar University, and he worked as an employer at Kabul University. He spoke Arabic and practiced Sunni Islam.

Rabbani participated in the Afghan Conflict. He was the father of Salahuddin Rabbani and a relative of Ahmad Zia Massoud. He received the Order of Ismoili Somoni. He died in Kabul on September 20, 2011, as a result of a suicide attack involving an explosive device. He is buried in Kabul.

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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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