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32 Wash. Int'l L.J. 283 (2022-2023)
The Constitutional Imagination of the Mujahidin: A History and Translation of Two Constitutions Proposed by Afghan Islamist Militias in the 1990s

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THE   CONSTITUTIONAL IMAGINATION OF THE
MUJAHIDIN: A HISTORY AND TRANSLATION OF TWO
CONSTITUTIONS PROPOSED BY AFGHAN ISLAMIST
MILITIAS IN THE 1990S


   Shamshad Pasarlay* and Clark B. Lombardi**


     [I]t is important sometimes to read and reflect upon constitutions that were
   fully thought out, drafted and proposed for ratification ... and were for some
                         reason never enacted.
                               --Robert Tsai'


                       TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION................................................................................. 284
I.   BA CK G R O U N D .........................................................................287
     A.   Pre-modern Islamic Law and the Evolution of Proto-constitutionalist
          Theories............................................................................. 287
     B.   The Evolution of Islamic Law in the Modern Era and the Rise of Islamic
          Constitutions ..................................................................... 290
II.  ISLAM  IN MODERN   AFGHANISTAN ................ 292
     A.   The Emergence of Sunni and Shi'ite Islamism in Afghanistan in the
           1960s ................................................................................. 295
     B.   The Emergence of Shi'ite Islamism in Afghanistan......... 296
III. THE  AFGHAN JIHAD OF 1979-1992 AND DRAFTING PROPOSED
     ISLAMIST  CONSTITUTIONS.................................................. 297
     A.   The Formation of Sunni Political Parties and the Drafting of their
          Constitution....................................................................... 299
     B.   Shiite Islamist Constitutionalism: The Harakat-i Islami and Its Draft
          Constitution....................................................................... 303






   1 ROBERT TSAI, AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN CONSTITUTIONS: DEFIANT VISIONS OF POWER AND COMMUNITY 3
(2014).

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