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Muqtada al-Sadr
Muqtada al-Sadr is an Iraqi cleric, politician and former militia leader. A leading Shia Muslim figure, he inherited the leadership of the Sadrist Movement from his father, and founded the now-dissolved Mahdi Army militia in 2003 that resisted the American occupation of Iraq.
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politics · Iraqi Shia cleric, politician and former militia leader (born 1974) · ulema · politician · theologian · also Muqtada al-Sadr, Muqtada, Al-Sadr, al-Sadr
Born 4 August 1974 · Q216826
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2026· 7 entries
“Raise your voice and shout so the corrupt get scared of you,”
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شفق نيوز: Al-Sadr urges IRGC to halt strikes on Iraq - Shafaq News | Latest breaking news in Iraq and the world
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Arab Times Kuwait News: Muqtada al-Sadr Urges Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Not to Strike Iraqi Territory
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وكالة الانباء العراقية (واع): Sayyid Al-Sadr: Iranian Revolutionary Guards must not strike Iraqi territory » Iraqi News Agency
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شفق نيوز: Muqtada Al-Sadr aide urges accountability over PMF “internal crime”
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The National Interest: Muqtada al-Sadr
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2023· 2 entries
Yahoo: Who is powerful Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr?
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Yahoo: Factbox-Who is the Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr?
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2022· 4 entries
Foreign Affairs: The Revenge of Muqtada al-Sadr
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NPR: What the resignation of popular Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr means in the Middle East
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Al Jazeera English: Analysis: Is Muqtada al-Sadr’s retirement announcement a tactic?
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India Today rated the claim “This video shows supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr attacking a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims, following Al-Sadr's decision to quit politics.” Mostly false.
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2018· 2 entries
“I am ready to intervene between the Islamic Republic and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to resolve some issues, even gradually, and that is for nothing but the best of Iraq and the region.”
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Joined his Sadrist political party to the Saairun alliance, which won the highest number of seats in the 2018 and 2021 Iraqi parliamentary elections
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2017· 2 entries
Condemned the Trump administration's open support of Israeli claims about Jerusalem and advocated the closure of the U
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And earlier and was criticized in some Iranian circles
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2015· 1 entry
Entered into an alliance with the Iraqi Communist Party and other secular groups "under an umbrella of security and corruption concerns", both long-standing issues of daily life in the country
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2014· 3 entries
Founded the Peace Companies militia and serves as its current head
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“Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this.”
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Called for the formation of "Peace Companies", often mistranslated as "Peace Brigades", to protect Shia shrines from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Began to present himself as a proponent of moderation and tolerance and called for peace
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Time 100 (2008).
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Sadr claimed for himself neither the title of mujtahid (the equivalent of a senior religious scholar) nor the authority to issue any fatwas
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2007· 1 entry
“is and Sunnis closer together and breaking down the barriers imposed by the Americans and Sunni religious extremists. In a statement issued 29 August 2007, Muqtada al-Sadr announced that an order to stand down for six months had been distributed to his loyalists following the deaths of more than 50 Shia Muslim pilgrims during fighting in Karbala the day before. The statement issued by Sadr”
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2003· 4 entries
A charge he denies and which remains unproven
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Muqtada al-Sadr organized thousands of his supporters into a political movement, which includes a military wing formerly known as the Jaysh al-Mahdi or Mahdi Army
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That resisted the American occupation of Iraq
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“Saddam was the little serpent, but America is the big serpent.”
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1994· 1 entry
Sadr married one of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr's daughters
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1980· 1 entry
Muqtada's father-in-law was executed by the Iraqi authorities in 1980.
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1974· 2 entries
Born 1974-08-04.
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“s reputation. However, later in 2014, he called for the formation of”
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