The Mehdi Army is a sectarian armed force created by the Iraqi Shi ' a cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in June 2003.

* August 5 – 27: Forces loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr resist government authority in Najaf ; the fighting is ended with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani ’ s help.

Muqtada is a journalistic account of the recent history of the religiously and politically prominent Sadr family, the rise of Muqtada, and the development of the Sadrist movement since the 2003 U. S. invasion.

He is often referred to as Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr.

Muqtada al-Sadr's formal religious standing is comparatively low, at a mid-ranking Shia religious rank perhaps reflecting his young age, and he does not claim the title of mujtahid ( the equivalent of a senior religious scholar ) or the authority to issue fatwas ( religious edicts ).

Muqtada al-Sadr is the fourth son of a famous Iraqi Shi ‘ a cleric, the late Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr.

Muqtada al-Sadr is of Iraqi and Lebanese ancestry.

It is generally frowned upon in Iraq for clerics to actively participate in secular politics, and like the other leading religious figures Muqtada al-Sadr did not run in the 2005 Iraqi elections.

Sheikh Abdul-Satar al-Bahadli is a senior Iraqi Shia cleric and confederate of Muqtada al-Sadr.

He is the father-in-law of Muqtada al-Sadr and cousin of both Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr and Imam Musa as-Sadr.

It is generally accepted that Vincent was executed because of his criticism of religious extremism in the area, expressed three days before his murder in " Switched Off in Basra ", a July 31 op-ed for The New York Times, in which he noted the increasing infiltration of the Basra police force by Islamic extremists loyal to Muqtada al Sadr.

* 1973 – Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi theologian and political leader

** Sadrist Movement-led by Muqtada al-Sadr

In the lead up to the January 2005 Iraqi election INC joined the United Iraqi Alliance coalition of mainly Shi ' ite groups as Chalabi reinvented himself as a sharp critic of the occupation, aligning himself with Muqtada al-Sadr.

Ideologically SIIC differs from Muqtada al-Sadr and its sometime ally Islamic Dawa Party, in favoring a decentralized Iraq state with an autonomous Shia zone in the south.

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for peaceful demonstrations and three days of mourning.

Associates of Mahdi leader Muqtada al-Sadr said he was distancing himself from the Samawah militia, led by " a renegade cleric ".

Militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr used his grass-roots organization and Mahdi Militia of over a thousand armed men to take control of the streets of Baghdad.

The Allawi government vowed to crush resistance, using U. S. troops, but at the same time negotiated with Muqtada al-Sadr.

* April 4: Beginning of violent clashes between the coalition and followers of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, which will end at the end of August 2004.

On the other hand, the violent history of rivalry between Shia factions and the unexplained circumstances of these attacks has led others to conclude that the attack was most likely carried out by supporters of a rival Shia leader, such as hardliner Muqtada al-Sadr.

* August 5, 2004, Muqtada al-Sadr and the Mahdi Army seized the mosque and used it as a military base for launching attacks against the Iraqi police, the provincial government and coalition forces.

The second, Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq was published in 2008.

* ( 2008 ), Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq, Scribner, ISBN 978-1-4165-5147-8.

Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, Muqtada al-Sadr's father, was a respected figure throughout the Shi ' a Islamic world.

Muqtada al-Sadr gained popularity in Iraq following the toppling of the Saddam government by the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

After the fall of the Saddam government in 2003, Muqtada al-Sadr organized thousands of his supporters into a political movement, which includes a military wing known as the Jaysh al-Mahdi or Mahdi Army ).

On May 10, a ceasefire was ordered by Muqtada Al-Sadr, allowing Iraqi troops into all of Sadr City.

On 4 April 2004, coalition forces closed Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's newspaper al-Hawza, claiming it contained incitements to violence.

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