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Najiha Al-Amiri
Najiha Al-Amiri (born 1956) is an Iraqi politician and a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq. Early life A Shiite Muslim, Najiha Al-Amiri was born in 1956 in Baghdad and attended the Al-Mustansiriya University. Career At a young age, Al-Amiri joined the Shiite Islamic Dawa Party and before she could finish college was arrested by the Ba'athist regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1979. She was kept in captivity and subjected to torture. She fled Iraq in her child in 1983 and continued her opposition of Hussein's regime for which reason several of her family members were murdered. Only after the 2003 invasion of Iraq succeeded, did Al-Amiri return to Iraq. She helped establish a women's wing of the Dawa Party and founded the Islamic Women's Association. The following year, she completed her B.S. in Mathematics. She was elected to the Iraqi Transitional Assembly in 2005 and was a member of the constitutional drafting committee. In 2010, she joined the Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to Iraq–Jordan border, the southwest and Syria to Iraq–Syria border, the west. The Capital city, capital and largest city is Baghdad. Iraq is home to diverse ethnic groups including Iraqi Arabs, Kurds, Iraqi Turkmen, Turkmens, Assyrian people, Assyrians, Armenians in Iraq, Armenians, Yazidis, Mandaeans, Iranians in Iraq, Persians and Shabaks, Shabakis with similarly diverse Geography of Iraq, geography and Wildlife of Iraq, wildlife. The vast majority of the country's 44 million residents are Muslims – the notable other faiths are Christianity in Iraq, Christianity, Yazidism, Mandaeism, Yarsanism and Zoroastrianism. The official langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Women's Association
Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God (or ''Allah'') as it was revealed to Muhammad, the main and final Islamic prophet.Peters, F. E. 2009. "Allāh." In , edited by J. L. Esposito. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . (See alsoquick reference) " e Muslims' understanding of Allāh is based...on the Qurʿān's public witness. Allāh is Unique, the Creator, Sovereign, and Judge of mankind. It is Allāh who directs the universe through his direct action on nature and who has guided human history through his prophets, Abraham, with whom he made his covenant, Moses/Moosa, Jesus/Eesa, and Muḥammad, through all of whom he founded his chosen communities, the 'Peoples of the Book.'" It is the world's second-largest religion behind Christianity, with its followers ranging between 1-1.8 billion globally, or around a quarter of the world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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