Nematullah Shahrani
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Known as the teacher of teachers, professor Nematullah Shahrani is one of the most prominent Afghan scholars. He is one of four vice-presidents of the Afghan Transitional Administration and the head of the Afghan Constitution Commission. He is the writer and translator of more than 30 books and has written several hundred academic articles. He belongs to an academic family that is known in Afghanistan as the family of scholars.
From Badakhshan Province in northern Afghanistan, Shahrani is ethnically 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.
He studied at Kabul University, Al-Azhar University (Cairo) and The George Washington University (USA).
Currently some of his other family members are teaching at academic institutions in the United States (such as Indiana University Bloomington) and the United Kingdom.
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