1940s) was an Afghan politician who served as prime minister under Salemai, a king of Afghanistan who ruled only in the Eastern Province.
[1] However, Whit Mason attributes the Safi uprising to "extremely brutal taxation, oppression and poverty".
[2] Among the more enthusiastic rebel fighters were younger men with more to gain and less to lose from fighting the government.
Religious scholars among the Safi ruled that anyone who rebelled against their King and died should be excluded from being counted as martyrs.
David B. Edwards, a veteran scholar of Afghan history, gives the following quote from Amanul Mulk (whom Edwards interviewed personally) in Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan (2017), which appears to confirm that Amanat Lewana was Prime Minister instead of Salemai:[5]We called Amanat Lewana ["mad," parroting the popular epithet for the unpopular Daud Khan].