Mohammad Musa Shafiq
Muḥammad Mūsá Shafīq | |
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محمد موسی شفيق | |
Mohammed Zahir Shah | |
Preceded by | Abdul Zahir |
Succeeded by | Nur Muhammad Taraki as Chairman of the Ministers of Council |
Personal details | |
Born | 1932 kabul Province, Kingdom of Afghanistan |
Died | 1979 Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan |
Resting place | Unknown |
Political party | Independent |
Alma mater | Al-Azhar University, Columbia University |
Occupation | Politician, poet |
Muḥammad Mūsá Shafīq (
Early life
Mohammad Musa Shafiq was born in
Education
Mohammad Musa Shafiq was graduated from Kabul Arabic Religious High School. He earned his Master's degree from Al-Azhar University in Egypt after which he earned an additional Master's degree from Columbia University in New York, United States of America.[1]
The last prime minister under the monarchy, Muhammad Musa Shafiq (1972-1973) appeared to many, in both the modernizing government camp and the traditional Islamic camp, to embody the compromise jurist who would ease the problem of shari'a versus statutory law. Shafiq had trained with a mawlawi and then had studied at the Shari'at Faculty, followed by al-Azhar and then Columbia University, where he studied Islamic and comparative law. His career was cut short by the Da'ud coup of 1973, and he was taken from arrest to execution by the Nur Muhammad Taraki regime.
— Ralph H. Magnus & Eden Naby, "Traditional Afghan Islam", Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid (2002)
Prime minister
As Prime Minister, Shafiq supported reforms of the largely conservative society of Afghanistan. He also sought closer ties with the United States and promised a crack-down on opium growing and smuggling. Other than that, he was also responsible for solving the then ongoing water dispute with Iran on diplomatic terms.[2] Shafiq was prime Minister for seven months.
Notes
- ^ Biography of Mohammad Musa Shafiq, TasvirAfghanistan.com. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
- ^ Anderson, Jack (2 March 1973) "The Afghanistan Connection" The Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York) page 5, column 3