Abdullo Nuri

Who was Abdullo Nuri?

Sayid Abdulloh Nuri, also transliterated as Abdullah Nuri, led the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan from 1993 until he died of cancer in late 2006. During the Tajik Civil War of 1992 to 1997 he led the United Tajik Opposition. Nuri and Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov ended the civil war by signing the Tajik National Peace Accord in 1997.

Nuri was born in Sangvor, Qarateghin Valley, Tajikistan. In 1974 he founded Nahzat-i Islomi, an Islamic education organization. Soviet militia arrested him in 1986 for spreading 'religious propaganda', imprisoning him until 1988.