Sibghatullah Mojadeddi

Sibghatullah Mojaddedi صبغت الله مجددی
Mojaddedi in September 2014
President of Afghanistan Acting
In office 28 April 1992 – 28 June 1992
Prime Minister	Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani
Preceded by	Abdul Rahim Hatif (Acting)
Succeeded by	Burhanuddin Rabbani
Personal details
Born	(1925-04-21) 21 April 1925 (age 92) Kabul, Afghanistan
Political party	Afghan National Liberation Front

Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (Pashto: صبغت الله مجددی‎‎, born 21 April 1925) is a politician in Afghanistan, who served as Acting President after the fall of Mohammad Najibullah's government in April 1992. He is also the founder of the Afghan National Liberation Front, and served as the chairman of the 2003 loya jirga that approved Afghanistan's new constitution.

In 2005 he was appointed chairman of the Meshrano Jirga, upper house of the National Assembly of Afghanistan, and was reappointed as a member in 2011. He also serves on the Afghan High Peace Council.

Mojaddedi was born on 21 April 1925 in Kabul, Afghanistan. His family, the Mojaddedis, are a well-known family of religious scholars from Kabul who trace their ancestry to Mujaddid Ahmad Sirhindi, a prominent 16th-century Islamic scholar and Naqshbandi Sufi. Ethnically, the Mojaddedis are categorized as Pashtuns.

Mojaddedi studied Islamic Law and Jurisprudence at al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. In 1952 he returned to Afghanistan to teach in high schools and at Kabul University, where he became known as an advocate of Afghan independence. In 1959 Mojaddedi was accused of conspiring against then Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev and was imprisoned until 1964. He spent many of the following years, including the period of Taliban rule, in exile in several countries such as Denmark and Pakistan before his entry into Afghan politics.

Mojaddedi is considered a moderate Muslim leader. He is a member of the Jebh-e-Nejat-e Melli (National Liberation Front). In 1989 the Afghan Interim Government appointed him as the president of the country.