Nematullah shahrani biography for kids
Saturday October 18, 2014
Kabul (BNA) Amanul Tawarikh, a history book, was opened by Professor Nematullah Shahrani in a ceremony held the other day with participation of Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen, acting minister of information and culture.
According to BNA, the book has been published with efforts and preface of Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen. In the ceremony held on this occasion with participation of cultural figures at Media International Center Hall of MoIC, acting minister of information and culture, Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen briefed related to the book and said, “It’s the first time that a detailed history named Amanul Tawarikh has been published in Afghanistan in seven copies explaining circumstances of various periods of our history.”
“The book written by an Iranian historian and journalist, al-Hajj Mirza Abdul Mohammad Muadabul Sultan Esfahani, who lived 80 years ago in Cairo and was the Editor-in-Chief of a magazine named ‘Chehranuma’ published and distributed in Afghanistan, Iran, India and Central Asia, Dr. Raheen added. Dr. Raheen has brought a copy of the book from New York Islamic Library to Kabul and republished it by adding a preface so that researchers of the country could use it. The book ‘Amanul Tawarikh’ has been published with efforts of Baihaqi Books Publishing by Liberty Printing Press and encompassed our history from mythology to King Amanullah Khan. In the ceremony, an appreciation certificate of MoIC was granted by Dr. Raheen to a journalist Abdul Qadir Mirzayee for his services in media sector. At the end of the ceremony, a feature film showing a part of incidents of democracy decades was displayed to the participants.
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Nematullah Shahrani
Afghani scholar (born 1941)
Nematullah Shahrani (born 1941) is a prominent Afghan scholar. He was one of four Vice Presidents of the Afghan Transitional Administration 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 Kabul University, Al-Azhar University (Cairo) and The George Washington University (U.S.).
From Badakhshan Province in northern Afghanistan, Shahrani is an ethnic Uzbek. Although he was one of the ideological figures behind the Afghan resistance against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 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 Indiana University Bloomington) and the United Kingdom.
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Shahrani, Nematullah (1941–)
A religious scholar trained in Afghanistan and Egypt, Nematullah Shahrani has spent much of his life as an apolitical educator, author, and translator of important Islamic literature from Arabic. He lived about twenty years as a refugee in Peshawar, Pakistan, supporting the Afghanistan Mujahidin resistance against Soviet occupation and communist regimes. After the fall of Taliban regime, he became one of four vice presidents to Hamid Karzai's transitional administration (2003–2005). Nematullah has also served as chairman of the Constitutional Drafting Commission, a member of the Constitutional Loyah Jergah (Grand Assembly), and as minister of Hajj and Religious Affairs since the election of Karzai as president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in 2005.
PERSONAL HISTORY
Shahrani was born in 1941 in a small Uzbek village, in the Jerm District of the remote mountainous province of Badakhshan, Afghanistan. His father, Mullah Ebaadullah Shahrani, was a village religious functionary who was instrumental in the establishment of the first elementary school in his village, becoming a teacher and a strong advocate of modern education. After completing primary and middle school in Badakhshan, Nematullah—one of thirteen children and the second eldest son in the family—entered Madrassa-yi Abu-Hanifa (an Islamic studies high school) in Paghman, near the capital Kabul. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Islamic Studies (Shari'ayat) at Kabul University in 1965 and was recruited to the teaching staff of the same unit upon graduation. In 1968 he accepted a scholarship to al-Azhar University in Cairo, the most prestigious institution for the study of Sunni Islam. He earned an MA in tafsir studies (the study of Qur'an Commentaries). Upon his return to Afghanistan in 1971 he rejoined the academic staff of the Faculty of Islamic Studies and became the editor of its official publication, the Shari'ayat (Islamic Studies Journal). In 1976–1 Nimatullah, also spelled Ni'matullāh, Nematollah etc. (Arabic: نعمة الله) is an Arabic male given name. Unlike Persian "Nima", whether used as masculine and usually feminine name, may have been possibly adopted from the neighbouring Arabic noun-adjective "نِعْمَة - ni‘mah / ni‘amah" - basic meaning: "blessing" or other meanings: "abundance; benefaction; beneficence; blessing; boon; favor; grace; kindness", for example, a lesser-composite Muslim masculine name like "نِعْمَةُ ٱلله - Ni‘mat’Ullah / Ni‘amat’Ullah - Blessing of Allah (God)" or a secondary meaning in the following sentence explained. However, this "نِعْمَة - ni‘mah / ni‘amah" denoted and referenced in the Quran is meant as "the Favour(s)/ Grace of Allah (God)". Nimatullah
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