Islamic Salvation Front

Islamic Salvation Front

الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ
Islamic Salvation Front الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ
French name	Front Islamique du Salut
Founders	Abbassi Madani; Ali Belhadj
Founded	18 February 1989
Registered	16 September 1989
Banned	4 March 1992
Ideology	Sunni Islamism; Islamic fundamentalism; Salafism; Jihadism; Arab nationalism; Qutbism; Pan-Islamism; Anti-communism; Anti-democracy
Religion	Sunni Islam
Slogan	"And ye were on the brink of the pit of Fire, and He saved you from it." (Al Imran:103)
Party flag
	Politics of Algeria; Political parties; Elections;

The Islamic Salvation Front (Arabic: الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ, romanized: al-Jabhah al-Islāmiyah lil-Inqādh; French: Front Islamique du Salut, FIS) was an Islamist political party in Algeria. The party had two major leaders representing its two bases of its support; Abbassi Madani appealed to pious small businessmen^{[citation needed]}, and Ali Belhadj appealed to the angry, often unemployed youth of Algeria.

Officially made legal as a political party in September 1989, less than a year later the FIS received more than half of valid votes cast by Algerians in the 1990 local government elections. When it appeared to be winning a general election in January 1992, a military coup dismantled the party, interning thousands of its officials in the Sahara. It was officially banned two months later.^[2] Its armed wing, the Islamic Salvation Army (AIS), fought in the Algerian Civil War against the Algerian government from July 1994 until its dissolution in January 2000.^[3]

^ Naylor, Phillip C. (7 May 2015). Historical Dictionary of Algeria. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-8108-7919-5. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
^ Dalacoura, Katerina (2011). Islamist Terrorism and Democracy in the Middle East. Cambridge University Press. p. 106. Retrieved 27 May 2015. FIS was banned.
^ "Dissolution en Algérie de l'Armée islamique du salut (AIS)". Le Monde.fr (in French). 8 January 2000. Archived from the original on 12 March 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.

[1] Naylor, Phillip C. (7 May 2015). Historical Dictionary of Algeria. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-8108-7919-5. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.

[itdme-106-2] Dalacoura, Katerina (2011). Islamist Terrorism and Democracy in the Middle East. Cambridge University Press. p. 106. Retrieved 27 May 2015. FIS was banned.

[3] "Dissolution en Algérie de l'Armée islamique du salut (AIS)". Le Monde.fr (in French). 8 January 2000. Archived from the original on 12 March 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.

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