Sheikh Mawlawi Noorullah Munir has been serving as Deputy Chief Justice for Judicial Affairs at the Supreme Court since mid-September 2025.
Prior to this role, he was Director General of the Central Directorate of Dar-ul-Ifta from September 2022. The Central Dar-ul-Ifta Directorate, based in Kabul province, functions as an Islamic judicial body and advisory center that issues Islamic legal rulings and opinions, including fatwas, and works closely with the Taliban's Supreme Court. Before that position, he served as the Minister of Education from September 2021 to September 2022.
A senior cleric and longstanding member of the Taliban’s religious commission, he has previously overseen the group’s Sharia courts. He is known to be a close confidante of the Taliban’s emir and is widely respected within Taliban ranks.
