Grand Ulema Members of the Reconciliation Phase of Muqadasa

After various ups and downs since the establishment of the First Reconciliation Government in 2003, including two coups attempts (both failed, 2009 and 2011), economic crises, internal strife between tribes and ethnic groups (but nothing more than armed gangs fighting with each other) and serious issues of corruption, poverty, and often shaky central governance, Harb'Muqadasa since 2016 has fortunately entered the most stable period of its history since 1973. The Grand Ulema Elections of 2019 (newest ones to be held) resulted in the most diverse Grand Ulema in the history of the country, mashallah.

Caliph: Khaled al-Saalinin, Pashtun Sunni from the Nangarhar region, 41 years old. A progressive reformer who seeks to uphold and develop the consultative Islamic democracy of the country on pragmatic and also ideal-driven terms. Elected to his provincial Ulema (Juhraz Province, outskirts of Jalalabad) in 2007, then to the Regional Ulema of Nangarhar in 2015, and was elected as Caliph in 2019.

Grand Imam (appointed rather than elected by the entire Ulemaat Assembly, made up of all Imams from the regional and provincial ones): Rushtaaz al-Khalifzai, 70 years old, Tajik Sufi from the Badakhshan region. Spiritual and strategic minded, has a very good track record over his 47 years of service to Islam and the people, from his early days struggling against the corrupt and overly-nationalist Republic to seeking peace and reconciliation with various groups during the Soviet-Afghan war, to then serving as an Imam at his village's mosque from 1992-96, was still Imam while also a resistance fighter against the Taliban from 1996-2002, was selected to represent the Islamic scholars and writers of Badakhshan at the Constituent Assembly in 2003, and as a result of his impressive voice on behalf of the Tajiks of that region, was elected to the Regional Ulema that same year, serving from 2003-2015, then elected as the representative for the Northern Tajik Sufi community to the Grand Ulema in 2015, and out of 25 other candidates was appointed as Imam by a vote in the Ulemaat Assembly of 67% in favor.

Grand Ulem of the Tajik Sufi Community: Jalazhur Shurzani, traditionalist.

Grand Ulem of the Tajik Sunni Community: Amiina Jalahrani (yes, a woman), moderate.

Grand Ulem of the Tajik Shia Community: Hossain Burulzani, reformer.

Grand Ulem of the Uzbek Sufi Community: Ozgur Turuktalik, progressive reformer.

Grand Ulem of the Uzbek Sunni Community: Maryam Zurkeia, moderate.

Grand Ulem of the Uzbek Shia Community: Murakshan Durabandi, traditionalist.

Grand Ulem of the Pashtun Sunni Community: Mahmoud Qarwamzai, moderate.

Grand Ulem of the Pashtun Sufi Community: Darwesh Shaamzai, traditionalist. (also, there are not enough Shia Pashtuns for a Grand Ulem)

Grand Ulem of the Hazara Shia Community: Jerpan Gurhazhali, progressive reformer.

Grand Ulem of the Hazara Sufi Community: Ashmara Turpzelip, moderate.

Grand Ulem of the Turkmen Sunni Community: Gorbuk Murkurmizik, moderate.

Grand Ulem of the Turkmen Sufi Community: Akbelik Kupzulkipi, traditionalist.

Grand Ulem of Kabul: Alhamdi Sharlaazai, reformer.

Grand Ulem of Kandahar: Muhammad Kandarzai, moderate.

Grand Ulem of Herat: Muzgur Akzelbicek, traditionalist.