Nematullah Shahrani (born 1941) is a prominent Afghan scholar. He was one of four

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of the

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from 2002 to 2004. Shahrani also headed of the Afghan Constitution Commission. He has written more than 30 books and several hundred academic articles. He belongs to an academic family that is known in Afghanistan as the family of scholars. He studied at

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(Cairo) and

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(U.S.). From

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in northern Afghanistan, Shahrani is an ethnic Uzbek. Although he was one of the ideological figures behind the Afghan resistance against the

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, he was never involved in any sectarian, party and other ethnic conflicts in Afghanistan. For that he earned the nickname of Mr. Clean. Currently some of his family members teach at academic institutions in the United States (such as

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) and the United Kingdom.

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Afghan academics Vice presidents of Afghanistan Government ministers of Afghanistan Living people 1941 births Al-Azhar University alumni George Washington University alumni Date of birth missing (living people) {{Afghanistan-politician-stub