Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim

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Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim preaching (1990)

Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim (born July 1, 1939 in Najaf ; † August 29, 2003 there ; Arabic محمد باقر الحكيم, DMG Muhammad Bāqir al-Ḥakīm ; also Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim ) was an Iraqi Grand Ayatollah and opposition leader.

Al-Hakim was the spiritual leader of the Shiites in Iraq. Since 1958 he was active in the Islamic movement. In 1968 the Ba'ath Party took power in Iraq. Al-Hakim was arrested for the first time in 1972, sentenced to death in 1977, but released in 1979.

After the equally influential Iraqi Grand Ayatollah and al-Hakim's companion, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, was hanged in 1980 on the orders of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and thousands of his followers were also killed in the course of persecution by the regime, hundreds of thousands fled into exile. Al-Hakim followed the refugees to Tehran at the end of September 1980. In 1982 he founded the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq , whose main goal was the overthrow of Saddam Hussein . Al-Hakim only returned to Najaf in May 2003 after the US eliminated the Ba'ath regime .

On August 29, 2003, immediately after a Friday prayer in front of the Imam Ali Mosque, he was killed by a car bomb set off as a suicide bomber by Yassin Jarad, father of Abu Musab az-Zarqawi's second wife (on his behalf). More than 100 people died with him. Al-Hakim was buried in Najaf on September 2, 2003 , and thousands of people attended his funeral.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Orient Institute (editor): Orient , Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-406-53447-3 , p. 6
  2. ↑ Mohamad Bazzi: Al-zarqawi In-law Tied To 2003 Attack. In: Newsday. Sun Sentinel, February 8, 2005, accessed November 25, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Lawrence Wright: The Terrorist. The New Yorker, June 19, 2006, accessed November 25, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Bruce O. Riedel: The Search for Al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future . Brookings Institution Press, 2010, p. 100.
  5. ↑ Mourning of the Shiites: Last honor for Ayatollah Hakim. In: Spiegel Online . September 2, 2003, accessed June 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hakim, Muhammad Baqir al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hakim, Mohammed Baqir al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi clergyman and opposition leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Najaf
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 2003
Place of death Najaf