Mujib Rahman Ansari

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Mujib-ur-Rahman Ansari (Dari: مجیب‌الرحمن انصاری, romanized: Mujīb-ur-Rahmān Ansārī; 1982 – 2 September 2022) was an Afghan Islamic scholar who preached in the city of Herat. An ally of the Taliban, Ansari was a Hanafi preacher, and was a staunch opponent of the American-backed Afghan government. In the late 2010s, Ansari seized control of a district of Herat, where he established extrajudicial sharia courts and checkpoints operated by his armed enforcers. A Taliban official described Ansari as