Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai (Pashto: احمد شاه احمدزی; 30 March 1944[citation needed] – 17 October 2021[1][2]) was an Afghan politician.
Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai was born in Malang, a village in the Khaki Jabbar district of Kabul Province.
He received a master's degree in 1975 and became a professor at King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia.
He was a close associate of Burhanuddin Rabbani, being deputy of his Jamiat-e Islami party, but then left and joined Abdul Rasul Sayyaf's Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan party in 1992, the year that communist rule ended.
[3] He was an independent candidate in the 2004 Afghan presidential election supporting an Islamic system of government.