Boys sit next to a mural of Shiite clerics Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, left, and Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, right, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 6, 2013, painted over a portrait of former dictator ...

Posters of Muqtada al-Sadr, once omnipresent, faded or disappeared, replaced by posters of late ayatollahs like Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, killed in an August 29, 2003, car bomb.

Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr was a leading Iraqi Shiite cleric and political critic who opposed the secular Ba’athist government of the former Iraqi president. In 1980, ...

Imam Muhammad al-Baqir Martyrdom and burial: In 100 A.H., Hasham bin Abdul Malik became the Caliph. He was a known enemy of the Ahl al-Bayt and he did not waste any opportunity to bring hardship to ...

Members of the Mehdi Army stand guard next to a poster of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, at a checkpoint in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq. Share. Tweet.

After his mentor, Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, was executed in 1980, Shahroudi moved to Iran permanently. There he founded the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and was highly ...

Posters of Muqtada al-Sadr, once omnipresent, faded or disappeared, replaced by posters of late ayatollahs like Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, killed in an August 29, 2003, car bomb.

Prague, 29 Agust 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Iraq's best-known Shi'a political leader, Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, the head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), was ...