Spreading Good, Forbidding Evil
General Presidency of Amr Bil Marof
Government decree
By: Islamic State of Afghanistan
Date: The decree enitled "General Presidency of Amr Bil Marof, Kabul, December 1996" was part of a series of three decrees (or letters) issued by the religious police of Afghanistan's Taliban regime in December, 1996.
Source: Letter from the Cultural and Social Affairs Department of General Presidency of Islamic State of Afghanistan.
About the Author: This is an edict given by the Taliban government, which had come to power in Afghanistan in September 1996. Amr Bil Marof is a reference to Islamic fundamental Sha'ria law and roughly translates into English as "spreading good and forbidding evil."
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