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Daawa Islamic Party

Islamic Dawa Party
حزب الدعوة الإسلامية
Chairman Haider al-Abadi
Founders

Mohammed Sadiq Al-Qamousee
Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr

Sayed Talib Al-Refaii
Founded 1958; 60 years ago (1958)
Headquarters Najaf, Iraq
Ideology Islamic democracy
Religion Shia Islam
National affiliation State of Law Coalition
International affiliation None
Colours           Green, red
Party flag
Islamic Dawa Party Flag.svg
Website
www.islamicdawaparty.org

Mohammed Sadiq Al-Qamousee
Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr

The Islamic Dawa Party, also known as the Islamic Call Party (Arabic: حزب الدعوة الإسلاميةḤizb Al-Daʿwa Al-Islāmiyya), is a political party in Iraq. Dawa and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council are two of the main parties in the religious-Shiite United Iraqi Alliance, which won a plurality of seats in both the provisional January 2005 Iraqi election and the longer-term December 2005 election. The party is led by Nouri al-Maliki, who was Prime Minister of Iraq between 20 May 2006 and 8 September 2014. The party backed the Iranian Revolution and also Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during the Iran–Iraq War and the group still receives financial support from Tehran despite ideological differences with the Islamic Republic.

Hizb Al-Dawa was formed in 1957 by Mohammed Saqik. His aim was to create a party and a movement which would promote Islamic values and ethics, political awareness, combat secularism, and create an Islamic state in Iraq. This came at a time when politics in Iraq was dominated by secularist Arab nationalist and socialist ideas. Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr – who was widely recognized as a leading philosopher, theologian, and political theorist – quickly emerged as the leading member. One of their main goals was to destroy Saddam Hussein. It had been Sadr who laid the foundations for the party and its ideology, based on Wilayat Al-Umma (Governance of the people). A twin party was also founded in Lebanon by clerics who had studied in Najaf and supported Muhammad Baqr al-Sadr's vision of a resurgent Islam.


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