Muqtada al sadr biography template

Iraqi Shia scholar, politician and militia leader (born )

Muqtada al-Sadr (Arabic: مقتدى الصدر, romanized:&#;Muqtadā aṣ-Ṣadr; born 4 August )^[3] is an Iraqi Shia Muslimcleric, politician and militia leader.

He inherited the leadership of the Sadrist Movement from his father.^[4] He founded the now dissolved Mahdi Army militia in that resisted the American occupation of Iraq. He also founded the Promised Day Brigade militia after the dissolution of the Mahdi Army; both were backed by Iran.

Muqtada al sadr biography template

In , he founded the Peace Companies militia and is its current head. In , he joined his Sadrist political party to the Saairun alliance, which won the highest number of seats in the and Iraqi parliamentary elections.^[5]

Titles

He belongs to the prominent al-Sadr family that hails from Jabal Amel in Lebanon, before later settling in Najaf.

Sadr is the son of Muhammad al-Sadr, an Iraqi religious figure and politician who stood against Saddam