Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq as-Sadr
Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq as-Sadr ( Arabic محمد محمد صادق الصدر, DMG Muḥammad Muḥammad Ṣādiq aṣ-Ṣadr ; spreads Mohammed Sadiq as-Sadr or just Sadiq as-Sadr ; * March 23, 1943 in Al-Kazimiyya ; † February 19, 1999 in Najaf ) was a Shiite leader in Iraq as a Grand Ayatollah . He is the father of the radical clergyman Muqtada as-Sadr .
Sadiq as-Sadr was Sayyid , so he was considered one of the successors of the Islamic founder of the religion, Mohammed . He was considered a power-conscious chauvinist and was built up against the Iran-sympathetic al-Hakim family (e.g. Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim ) and the Persian Sistani, who lived in Iraq, by Saddam Hussein, who taught him the Shiite school al-Hawza in Najaf let lead. In the late 1990s, he became increasingly estranged from the Ba'ath Party . After the murder of Sadiq al-Sadr and two of his sons on February 19, 1999, bloody riots broke out in Najaf, Nasiriya and Basra .
Sadiq as-Sadr was the cousin (according to some sources: nephew) of the Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr , an opponent of the Baʿth party. He was killed by Saddam Hussein in 1980, before the first Gulf War .
A northern part of Baghdad, Madīnat aṣ-Ṣadr aṯ-ṯānī (English Sadr City ), is named after him.
Web links
- Al Jazeera about the Sadr family (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörn Böhme, Hermann Gröthe, Christoph Moosbauer and others: German Middle East Policy - Interests and Options , Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach 2001, ISBN 3879200688 , p. 720
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sadr, Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq as- |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Shiite leader in Iraq |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Al-Kazimiyya |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1999 |
| Place of death | Najaf |