Mullah
Mullah (; ) is an honorific title for Shia and Sunni Muslim clergy or a Muslim mosque leader. The term is also sometimes used for a person who has higher education in Islamic theology and sharia law.
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Osman Abdulaziz was a Kurdish Islamic scholar and politician in Iraqi Kurdistan. He created the
Kurdistan Islamic Movement
The Kurdistan Islamic Movement ( ku, بزووتنهوی ئيسلامی له كوردستان}) is a Kurdish Islamist party founded in 1987 by Osman Abdulaziz and several other Kurdish Islamic scholars who were all part of the non-political ...
. He was famous for
declaring Jihad against Saddam Hussein's government.
Life
Osman Abdulaziz was born in 1922 in the village of Prisi Saroo close to Halabja to a religious family. His father, Abdulaziz, was the Imam of the mosque of Prisi Saroo village. Osman studied the Qur'an, Persian, Arabic, and many other subjects such as grammar and literature. He then went from his village to Trifa village and studied all the basic sciences with Mullah Salih Abdulkarim, a well-known Kurdish Islamic scholar who was his cousin. Osman completed all his religious and linguistic studies when he was 18. In 1935, he succeeded his father in becoming the Imam of the local Mosque. Osman taught at and served Kurdish mosques for more than 50 years. He died on May 12, 1999, in
Damascus
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Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
, and his body was brought back to Halabja and buried with his wife Atiya and his son Zubair.
[تەفسیری ڕامان لە مانا و مەبەستی قورئان، ئەحمەد کاکە مەحموود، چاپ ساڵی ٢٠٢٠]
References
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Iraqi Kurdistani politicians
1922 births
Kurdish nationalists
Kurdish Islamists
1999 deaths