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The data on the religious affiliation of Iraq's population are uncertain. 95–99% of the population are Muslims. [15] [16] The CIA World Factbook reported a 2015 estimate according to which 36–39% were Sunni Muslims and 61-64% Shia Muslims. [15] According to a 2011 survey by Pew Research, 51% of the Muslims identified as Shia and 42% as ...
In the early Islamic period, Iraq was a key center of the Abbasid Caliphate, with the city of Baghdad serving as its capital from the 8th to the 13th century. Sunni Arabs played a significant role in the administration (including the ruling Abbasid dynasty) and cultural life of the caliphate, and many important figures of Islamic scholarship and literature emerged from Iraq during this time ...
Iraq's Muslims follow two distinct traditions, Shia and Sunni Islam. According to the CIA World Factbook , Iraq is approximately 95% to 98% Muslim, with approximately 55% Shia and 40% Sunni. [ 5 ] According to a 2011 survey by Pew Research , 51% of the Muslims identify as Shia and 42% as Sunni. [ 6 ]
Richard Engel, who is an NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent, wrote an article in late 2011 alleging that the United States Government is pro-Sunni and anti-Shia. During the Iraq War, the United States feared that a Shiite-led, Iran-friendly Iraq could have major consequences for American national security. However, nothing can be done about ...
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.
Iraqi Islamic Party: Sunni Arab Iyad Allawi (p) (Served as first interim Prime Minister of Iraq) Iraqi National Accord: Shiite Arab Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi: Iraqi Hezbollah: Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari (p) (Served as second interim Prime Minister of Iraq) Islamic Dawa Party: Shiite Arab Ezzedine Salim (p) (died in car bomb on 17 ...
The government of Iraq is defined under the current Constitution, approved in 2005, as an Islamic, [1] democratic, parliamentary republic. [2] The government is composed of the executive , legislative , and judicial branches, as well as numerous independent commissions.
In June 2015, new Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, head of a broad government coalition, appointed Abd al-Latif al-Humaym as Office President, [13] [14] despite the veto of the Fiqh Council of Sunni Ulema, of Islamist tendency, [7] and the opposition of the Sunni Iraqi Fatwa Council, linked to the Popular Mobilization Forces and to Shiite ...