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Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Baqir Al-Hakim, born in 1939, is the son of the
late Grand Ayatollah Muhsin AI-Hakim (who was the spiritual leader for the Shia
world in the period 1955-1970).
The Al-Hakim family is a well-known religious Iraqi family loved and
respected by millions of Shia Muslims in Iraq and throughout the Muslim world.
Sayyid Al-Hakim was born, brought up and studied religion in Najaf, Iraq (the
holy city in the world). He was a distinguished scholar and the personal
religious/political representative of the late Grand Ayatollah Muhsin AI-Hakim
in Iraq.
Sayyid Al-Hakim was a co-founder of the Islamic political movement in Iraq
established in the late fifties, along with the late distinguished leader
Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammed Baqir Al-Sadr and other scholars. Sayyid Al-Hakim
maintained a close association with Ayatollah Al-Sadr up to the martyrdom of
Ayatollah Al-Sadr in 1980. In 1972 Sayyid Al-Hakim was arrested and tortured by
the Bathist regime. He was released after a wide spread popular pressure on the
regime. In 1977 he was re-arrested following the people's uprising in Feb 1977
in Najaf, and immediately sentenced to life imprisonment by special court
without any trial. He was released in July 1979 following huge public pressure
on the regime.
Sayyid Al-Hakim's association with Ayatollah Al-Sadr continued after his
release in 1979 when Ayatollah Al-Sadr was put under house arrest. At this point
Sayyid Al-Hakim assumed the responsibility of conducting clandestine contact
with Ayatollah Al-Sadr until April 1980 when Ayatollah Al-Sadr was murdered by
Saddam's regime. Sayyid Al- Hakim then decided to leave Iraq in 1980 shortly
after the eruption of war between Iraq and Iran. He played a prominent role in
the deliberations leading to the establishment of the Supreme Council of the
Islamic Resistance in Iraq (SCIRI) in November 1982.
Saddam's regime reacted violently to Sayyid Al-Hakim's prominent political
activity of SCIRI and arrested 125 members of his family in 1983. Subsequently
18 members of his family were executed. Despite this ordeal and the
assassination of his brother Sayyid Mahdi Al-Hakim in Sudan Jan 1988, Sayyid
Al-Hakim continued his political activities against Saddam's regime. In addition
to his political activities, Sayyid Al-Hakim is a leading member of several
Islamic associations. He is also the author of many books on Islamic and
political thoughts.
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