Muqtada al-sadr biography
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Muqtada al-Sadr
Iraqi Shia scholar, politician and militia leader (born 1974)
Muqtada al-Sadr (Arabic: مقتدى الصدر, romanized: Muqtadā aṣ-Ṣadr; born 4 August 1974)[3] fryst vatten an Iraqi Shia Muslimcleric, 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. He also founded the Promised Day Brigade insurgent group after the dissolution of the Mahdi Army; both were backed bygd Iran. In 2014, he founded the Peace Companies militia and serves as its current head. In 2018, he joined his Sadrist political party to the Saairun alliance, which won the highest number of seats in the 2018 and 2021 Iraqi parliamentary elections.[5]
Titles
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The enigma of Muqtada al-Sadr
What is Muqtada al-Sadr’s objective? A prominent religious and political figure, he has a considerable ability to surprise with his changes of direction. He leads one of the most powerful militias in the country, Saraya as-Salam (Peace Brigades), but also heads a nationalist political movement that became the leading force in parliament after elections in 2018 and 2021.
He’s the son of the revered cleric Mohammad Sadek al-Sadr, who was assassinated by Saddam Hussein’s regime in Najaf in 1999. He rejects both Iranian and US influence, but happily formed an alliance with Iraqi communists. In August 2022, when apparently at the height of his power, he caused widespread surprise by ordering his 73 members of parliament to resign and announcing his own withdrawal from politics.
This decision triggered clashes between his supporters and the regular army in Baghdad, leaving dozens dead and hundreds injured. On 14 April he announced the
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Introduction
On August 29, 2022, Qom-based Grand Ayatollah Kazem Husseini al-Haaeri announced his resignation as a marjaa taqlid, a religious authority and source of emulation in the Shia community. He encouraged his emulators (muqallidin) to switch their allegiance to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He also used his address to launch a scathing attack against Muqtada al-Sadr, the populist cleric and leader of Iraq’s Sadrist movement. Haaeri insinuated that Sadr lacked scholarly credentials and had deviated from the approach of the movement’s two great martyrs, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Sadr and Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, Muqtada al-Sadr’s own father.
Haaeri’s intervention was significant primarily because of his status as a marjaa for the Sadrist movement. Consequently, his criticism appeared to threaten Sadr’s authority at a crucial time when he was mobilizing his followers in the dispute with Iran-backed factions over the formation of a