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Muqtada al-Sadr (Arabic: مقتدى الصدر, romanized: Muqtadā aṣ-Ṣadr; born 4 August 1974) [3] is an Iraqi Shia Muslim cleric, politician and militia leader.He inherited the leadership of the Sadrist Movement from his father, [4] and founded the now dissolved Mahdi Army militia in 2003 that resisted the American occupation of Iraq.
ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Sīstānī [1] [2] [3] (Persian: علی حسینی سیستانی; Arabic: علي الحسيني السيستاني; born 4 August 1930) is an Iranian-born [4] Islamic scholar and the dean of the Hawza of Najaf in Iraq.
The Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI or SIIC; Arabic: المجلس الأعلى الإسلامي العراقي Al-Majlis Al-A'ala Al-Islami Al-'Iraqi; previously known as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, SCIRI) is a Shia Islamist political party in Iraq.
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim – leader of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq; Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir – Iraqi politician and a member of parliament in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq; Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum – prominent Twelver Shi'a Islamic leader and politician in Iraq; Muqtada al-Sadr – Iraqi politician and head of the Mahdi Army
Shia Islam in Iraq (Arabic: الشيعة في العراق) has a history going back to the times of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first imam of Shia Islam and fourth caliph of Sunni Islam who moved the capital of the early caliphate from Medina to Kufa (or Najaf) two decades after the death of Muhammad.
Iraq: Fertile Crescent: Abdul Latif Rashid: President of Iraq: 13 October 2022 Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani: Prime Minister of Iraq: 27 October 2022 Jordan: Abdullah II of Jordan: King of Jordan: 7 February 1999 Jafar Hassan: Prime Minister of Jordan: 15 September 2024 Kuwait: Arabian Peninsula: Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah: Emir of Kuwait: 16 ...
The Sadrist Movement (Arabic: التيار الصدري al-Tayyār al-Sadrī) is an Iraqi Shi'a Islamic national movement and political party, led by Muqtada al-Sadr.. The Sadrist Movement ended as largest political party in the October 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election, with 73 seats in Parliament, but in June 2022, during the 2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis, Muqtada al-Sadr’s bloc ...
Ayatollah al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Muhsin al-Hakim at-Tabataba'i (8 July 1939 – 29 August 2003; Arabic: السيد محمد باقر محسن الحكيم الطباطبائي), also known as Shaheed al-Mehraab, was a senior Iraqi Shia Islamic Scholar and the leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).