Secularization in Afghanistan and the Role of Amir Abdurrahman in Secularization

Secularization is a social phenomenon about which various theoreticians have expressed their views. The present paper is a study of the process of secularization in Afghanistan. It makes use of Allamah Tabatabaii's theoretical framework. Based on the research method used in this research, this paper has chosen the era of Amir Abdurrahman for this discussion. In his era, a special order was established in Afghanistan, which reconstructed itself time and again throughout the history of this country and which has undergone no fundamental change; an order that was established by Amir Abdurrahman and that led to the secularization of Afghanistan’s society. The problems from which Afghanistan's society suffers today are attributed to the confusion in religious knowledge which Amir Abdurrahman has created in Afghanistan. That is, Amir Abdurrahman’s inadmissible interpretation of religious teachings has been behind the current problems in Afghanistan.