Amina Haydar al-Sadr ( ar, آمنة حيدر الصدر), known as Bint al-Huda al-Sadr (), was an

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 the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

i educator and political activist who was executed by

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutio ...

along with her brother, Ayatullah Sayyid

Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr ( ar, آية الله العظمى السيد محمد باقر الصدر; 1 March 1935 – 9 April 1980), also known as al-Shahīd al-Khāmis (the fifth martyr), was an Iraqi philosopher, and the ideological founde ...

, in 1980.

Life and career

Aminah Haidar al-Sadr was born in 1937 in Kazimiyah,

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...

where she would eventually establish several religious schools for girls. Bint al-Huda played a significant role in creating Islamic awareness among the Muslim women of Iraq. She was in her twenties when she began writing articles in '' al-Adwaa'', an Islamic magazine printed by the religious intellectuals of

Najaf Najaf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف) or An-Najaf al-Ashraf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف ٱلْأَشْرَف), also known as Baniqia ( ar, بَانِيقِيَا), is a city in central Iraq about 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad. Its estimated popula ...

, Iraq, in 1959. She was also well known for her participation in the Safar Uprising in 1977. Bint al-Huda grew up with a serious love of learning. She soon became aware of what she perceived to be the Muslim women's sufferings and the great disasters which were damaging Islamic ideology in her country. In 1980, the religious leader Ayatollah Sayyid

and his sister, Bint al-Huda, were arrested, brutally tortured and later executed by Saddam Hussein's regime due to their leading role in the opposition to the regime. The regime never returned her body, but her burial site is said to be in Wadi Al-Salam, Najaf.

Works

* A Word And A Call - first book published in the 1960s * Virtue Triumphs * A Lady With The Prophet * Two Women And A Man - a story about education and guidance * Conflict of reality * The Searcher Of Truth - published in 1979 * Memories On The Hills of Mecca - written after her pilgrimage Ito Mecca in 1973 * A Meeting At The Hospital * The Lost Aunt * Had I But Known * The Game * The Heroic Muslim Women * Inner Debate * The Lost Diary * Choosing A Wife * Determination * Spiritual Journey * A Bad Bargain * The Gift * A Visit To The Bride * Inner Debate * The Last Days * Hard Times * A New Start * The Last Hours * Struggling With Conflict * Idleness * Ingratitude * Firm Stand * The Dangerous Game * A Muslim Student's Diary

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Safar Uprising
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Life and career

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