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{{Short description|Algerian militant Islamist organization}}
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| name             = Islamic Front for Armed Jihad
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| active           = 1993-July 21, 1996
| split_from       = [[Armed Islamic Group of Algeria]]
| ideology         = [[Islamism]]<br>[[Algerian nationalism]]
| leaders          = Muhammad Said
| merged_into      = Islamic Movement for Preaching and Jihad
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| allies           = Movement for an Islamic State
| opponents        = {{flagicon|Algeria}} [[Algeria|Algerian government]]
| battles          = [[Algerian Civil War]]
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The '''Islamic Front for Armed Jihad''' ([[French language|French name]], ''Front Islamique du Djihad Armé'', hence the abbreviation '''FIDA''') was a militant [[Islamist]] organization active during the [[Algerian Civil War]]. It was founded in 1993{{efn|{{harvnb|Zoubir|2019}} gives a year of 1992. Others including {{harvnb|Botha|2008}} and {{harvnb|Jules|2023}} give it as 1993}} when it split from the [[Armed Islamic Group of Algeria]] (GIA), under the leadership of [[Muhammad Said (GIA)|Muhammad Said]].<ref name="Zoubir2019">{{cite journal |last1=Zoubir |first1=Yahia H. |title=Civil Strife, Politics, and Religion in Algeria |journal=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics |date=25 February 2019 |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.806}}</ref><ref name="Botha2008">{{cite book |last1=Botha |first1=Anneli |title=Terrorism in the Maghreb: The transnationalisation of domestic terrorism |date=June 2008 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273126186_Terrorism_in_the_Maghreb_The_transnationalisation_of_domestic_terrorism |publisher=Institute for Security Studies|isbn=1920114327|edition=144|page=37}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jules |first1=Tavis D. |editor1-last=Romaniuk |editor1-first=Scott N. |editor2-last=Catino |editor2-first=Martin Scott |editor3-last=Augustus Martin |editor3-first=C. |title=The Handbook of Homeland Security |date=2023 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=9781315144511 |page=318 |edition=1st |chapter=46. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)}}</ref> Coming from the [[Djaz'ara]] (Algerianist) wing,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hafez |first1=Mohammed M. |author1-link=Mohammed Hafez (academic) |title=Fratricidal Rebels: Ideological Extremity and Warring Factionalism in Civil Wars |journal=Terrorism and Political Violence |date=2 April 2020 |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=604–629 |doi=10.1080/09546553.2017.1389726|hdl=10945/56404 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> it called for the violent overthrow of the secular [[Algeria]]n government, and a system of [[government]] based on [[shari'a]] law.

It became notorious for its [[Anti-intellectualism|killings of intellectuals]], including politicians and journalists.<ref name="Zoubir2019" /><ref name="Botha2008" /> These included the killing of [[Kasdi Merbah]] and of the head of the [[UGTA]] union.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Layachi |first1=Azzedine |title=Political liberalisation and the islamist movement in algeria |journal=The Journal of North African Studies |date=January 2004 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=46–67 |doi=10.1080/1362938042000323338}}</ref>

On July 21, 1996, it merged under the auspices of [[Mustapha Kartali]] with the [[Movement for an Islamic State]] (MEI) and other splinter factions of the GIA to form the [[Islamic Movement for Preaching and Jihad]] (MIPD).

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[[Category:Factions of the Algerian Civil War]]
[[Category:Jihadist groups in Algeria]]
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