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Sheikh Abdul Malik

Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ109354211 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sheikh Abdul Malik (شیخ عبدالمالک) is an Afghan Taliban leader and Islamic scholar. He is currently the Second Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan alongside Qasim Rasikh since 28 October 2021.

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“Sheikh Abdul Malik” enters the record as deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sheikh, Abdul and Malik can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sheikh, Abdul and Malik.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q109354211. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sheikh Abdul Malik” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.