Al-Zubair District ( ar, قضاء الزبير) is a district in
Basra Governorate,
Iraq. It seat is the city of
Al-Zubair. In the 1880s some Najd tribes immigrated to al-Zubair due to the fact that Najd had nothing to offer, but around 1945s they returned to their home (Saudi Arabia) after it has changed notably. In the early 1990s, Saddam Hussein hoped to make al-Zubair province number 19 and annex it to
Kuwait after invading. The failure of the
Invasion of Kuwait put rest to this idea. The district is majority
Sunni
Sunni Islam () is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims. Its name comes from the word '' Sunnah'', referring to the tradition of Muhammad. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagr ...
of
Maliki .
Districts of Basra Province
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