Muqtadā al-Ṣadr or Moktada al-Sadr {also known in some regions as Mokhta as Seeni} (سيد مقتدى الصدر) (born August 12, 1973) is an Iraqi theologian and political leader.
Along with Ali al-Sistani and Ammar al-Hakim of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, Sadr is one of the most influential religious and political figures in the country not holding any official title in the Iraqi government.
Muqtada al-Sadr is the fourth son of a famous Iraqi Shi‘a c...
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Muqtadā al-Ṣadr or Moktada al-Sadr {also known in some regions as Mokhta as Seeni} (سيد مقتدى الصدر) (born August 12, 1973) is an Iraqi theologian and political leader.
Along with Ali al-Sistani and Ammar al-Hakim of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, Sadr is one of the most influential religious and political figures in the country not holding any official title in the Iraqi government.
Muqtada al-Sadr is the fourth son of a famous Iraqi Shi‘a cleric, the late Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr. He is also the son-in-law of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir As-Sadr.
Muqtada al-Sadr is of Lebanese ancestry. His great-grandfather is Ismail as-Sadr. Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, Muqtada al-Sadr's father, was a well-respected figure throughout the Shi'a Islamic world. He was murdered, along with two of his sons, allegedly by the government of Saddam Hussein. Muqtada's father-in-law was executed by the Iraqi authorities in 1980. Muqtada is a cousin of the disappeared Musa al-Sadr, the...
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