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Observers described the move as being a path leading directly to Shia political dominance over Iraq's government, as Shia Muslims make up approximately 65% of the total Iraqi population. [ citation needed ] Subsequently, Sistani criticized plans for an Iraqi government for not being democratic enough.
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.
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
Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Basheer Hussain Najafi (Arabic: آية الله العظمى بشير النجفي) (born 1942) is a Pakistani Twelver Shia Marja' and one of the Four Grand Ayatollahs of Najaf, Iraq. He was born in Jalandhar, [1] a city in then-British India. He resides in Najaf, Iraq now.
Little is known about al-Qurashi. According to Iraqi security and government officials, al-Qurashi was the elder brother of former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Research published by Hisham al-Hashimi in 2020 stated that al-Qurashi headed the five-member Shura Council.
Hamdanid territory in 955 during the rule of Sayf al-Dawla. The Hamdanid dynasty of Banu Taghlib was among the first Twelver Shia dynasties formed in northern Iraq. The Hamdanids first emerged as governors of Mardin in 890 and Mosul in 905, and by 950 had expanded into most of Syria and western Iraq, informally forming a parallel authority to the one in Baghdad.
A. Khodayyir Abbas; Adil Abdul-Mahdi; Rida Al Abdullah; Kasim Abid; Adela Humood Alaboudi; Abu Abdallah al-Baridi; Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i; Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Samarri
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).