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The law in Afghanistan is the uncodified Sharia (Islamic law), interpreted according to the Hanafi jurisprudential school. [1] The ruling Taliban has maintained a strict Hanafi-only approach, ignoring enumeration of international rights, that bears greater similarity to Iran and its "Ja'fari only" jurisprudential stance than countries like Pakistan which follow a non-exclusive parliamentary ...
The Constitution describes Islam as its sacred law and the most commonly practiced faith throughout Afghanistan. Followers of other religions are "free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites" within the limits of the law. There is no mention of freedom of thought, and apostasy from Islam. [citation needed]
Afghanistan shall be an Islamic Republic, independent, unitary, and indivisible state. The sacred religion of Islam shall be the religion of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Followers of other faiths shall be free within the bounds of law in the exercise and performance of their religious rights.
The rules, promoted as in line with Islamic sharia law and to be enforced by the morality ministry, were based on a decree by the Taliban's supreme spiritual leader in 2022 and were now officially ...
Politicized Islam in Afghanistan represents a break from Afghan traditions. The Islamist Movement originated in 1958 among faculties of Kabul University, particularly in the Faculty of Islamic Law, which had been founded in 1952 with the stated purpose of raising the quality of religious teaching to accommodate modern science and technology.
The Taliban's supreme spiritual leader said the group had transformed Afghanistan into an Islamic sharia-based country, as the former insurgents marked three years of rule with a huge military ...
The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Pashto: د امربالمعروف، نهی عن المنکر او شکایتونو اورېدلو وزارت; Dari: وزارت امر بالمعروف، نهی عن المنکر وسمع شکایات) is the state agency in charge of implementing Islamic law in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as defined by the Taliban.
From 2004 to 2021, the 2004 Constitution of Afghanistan was the basis of law in Afghanistan. [8] After the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the new authorities declared the restoration of parts of the 1964 constitution that are "not in conflict with Islamic Sharia (law)" to govern the country in the interim. [9]