Dawa Party
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Islamic Dawa Party
حزب الدعوة الإسلامية |
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| Chairman | Haider al-Abadi |
| Founders | Mohammed Sadiq Al-Qamousee Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr |
| Founded | 1958 |
| Headquarters | Najaf, Iraq |
| Ideology | Islamic democracy |
| Religion | Shia Islam |
| National affiliation | State of Law Coalition |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Green, red |
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The Islamic Dawa Party, also known as the Islamic Call Party (Arabic: حزب الدعوة الإسلامية Ḥizb 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 Sadiq Al-Qamousee. 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. It was he who laid out the foundations for the party and its political ideology, based on Wilayat Al-Umma (Governance of the people). A "twin" Islamic Dawa 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. Al-Qamousee was also known for organizing and leading with the creation of a political party in Lebanon known as "Hizbollah".
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