Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim

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Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim voting in the Iraqi National Assembly on January 30, 2005
Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim and GW Bush in December 2006

Ayatollah Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim , also Abdul Aziz al-Hakim , ( Arabic عبد العزيز الحكيم, DMG ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Ḥakīm ; * 1950 or 1953 in Najaf ; † August 26, 2009 in Tehran ) was an Iraqi clergyman and politician. He was the son of Grand Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim .

Ayatollah al-Hakim opposed Saddam Hussein ; he fled to Iran to avoid persecution . There his brother, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim , founded the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) , an Islamist party whose main goal was the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and which today advocates a markedly Islamic identity for Iraq.

After 23 years in exile returned Abdul Aziz al-Hakim from Iran and became a member in the US -appointed Iraqi Governing Council appointed.

After his brother was killed in an attack in August 2003 , he became the new chairman of SCIRI. In addition, he led the predominantly Shiite party alliance United Iraqi Alliance in the Iraqi election on January 30, 2005 , to which the SCIRI also belonged. The United Iraqi Alliance emerged from the election as the clear winner with 48% of the vote and also won an absolute majority of the seats in the National Assembly. He made the proposal to constitute the Shiite-dominated southern Iraq as an autonomous region with the name Sumer , which the Sunni minority in particular immediately rejected.

On August 26, 2009, he died of lung cancer in a hospital in Tehran . He was buried in the crypt next to his brother in Najaf.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary: Abdul Aziz al-Hakim BBC news, August 26, 2009
  2. ↑ Abdul Aziz al- Hakim in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  3. ↑ Shiite leader Hakim died of lung cancer Spiegel online from August 26, 2009
  4. ^ Hassan Abdul Zahra: Iraq's Shiite leader Hakim buried in Najaf. Agence France-Presse , August 29, 2009, archived from the original on January 31, 2014 ; accessed on May 10, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Hakim, Abd al-Aziz al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES عبد العزيز الحكيم (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi clergyman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1950 or 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Najaf , Iraq
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 2009
Place of death Tehran , Iran