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 ...
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
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Shia
Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his S ...
family originating from
Jabal Amel
Jabal Amil ( ar, جبل عامل, Jabal ʿĀmil), also spelled Jabal Amel and historically known as Jabal Amila, is a cultural and geographic region in Southern Lebanon largely associated with its long-established, predominantly Twelver Shia Musl ...
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Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...
Shia Imam
In Shia Islam, the Imamah ( ar, إمامة) is a doctrine which asserts that certain individuals from the lineage of the Islamic prophet Muhammad are to be accepted as leaders and guides of the ummah after the death of Muhammad. Imamah further ...
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History
Sadr is a branch of Charafeddine ( ar, شرف الدين, links=no) family from
Jabal Amel
Jabal Amil ( ar, جبل عامل, Jabal ʿĀmil), also spelled Jabal Amel and historically known as Jabal Amila, is a cultural and geographic region in Southern Lebanon largely associated with its long-established, predominantly Twelver Shia Musl ...
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Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...
. The Charafeddine family itself is a branch of the Noureddine family, which traces its lineage to Moussa al-Kazim (the seventh Shi'a Imam) and through him to the first Imam, Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatima Zahra, the daughter of Muhammad (d.632). The as-Sadr family has produced numerous Islamic scholars in Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq, including
Ismail Sadr
Ismail as-Sadr ( ar, اسماعيل الصدر) (died 1919–1920) was a Lebanese Grand Ayatollah, a title which is used in Iran and Iraq referring to a Twelver Shi'a scholar who is a fully qualified mujtahid who asserts authority over peers and ...
Sayyid Muhammad as-Sadr
Sayyid Muhammad Hasan al-Sadr (; 7 January 1882 – 3 April 1956) was an Iraqi Shi'ite statesman.Yaacov Shimoni, ''Biographical Dictionary of the Middle East'', 1991, p.202 He served as Prime Minister of Iraq from 29 January 1948 to 26 June 19 ...
, Prime Minister of Iraq in 1948
* Sadreddine bin Saleh (also Sadr-ed-Deen bin Saleh), 19th century Islamic scholar
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Ismail Sadr
Ismail as-Sadr ( ar, اسماعيل الصدر) (died 1919–1920) was a Lebanese Grand Ayatollah, a title which is used in Iran and Iraq referring to a Twelver Shi'a scholar who is a fully qualified mujtahid who asserts authority over peers and ...
Muqtada al-Sadr
Muqtada al-Sadr ( ar, مقتدى الصدر, Muqtadā aṣ-Ṣadr; born 4 August 1974) is an Iraqi politician and militia leader. He is the leader of the Sadrist Movement and the leader of the Peace Companies, a successor to the militia he had p ...
, (born 1973), son of Sadr Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq Sadr, heads a large militia in Iraq
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Sadreddine Sadr
Sadr al-Din Sadr ( ar, صدر الدين الصدر) (1882 – 26 November 1953 erfan.ir) was the father of
(died 1954) son of Ismail Sadr
* Imam Moussa Sadr, (1928–1978?), son of Sadreddine Sadr, Lebanese religious leader
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Haidar Sadr
Ayatollah Haydar al-Sadr ( ar, حيدر الصدر; 1891–1937) was born in Samarra, Iraq. His father, Ismail as-Sadr (d. 1920) was a Grand Ayatollah and the first to be use the as- Sadr surname, which came to be associated with a long line of r ...
, (1891–1937), son of Ismail Sadr
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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 ...
, (1935–1980), son of Haidar Sadr and a major Islamic thinker; also known as the "Third martyr" or "Sadr I"
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Amina Sadr bint al-Huda
Amina Haydar al-Sadr ( ar, آمنة حيدر الصدر), known as Bint al-Huda al-Sadr (), was an Iraqi educator and political activist who was executed by Saddam Hussein along with her brother, Ayatullah Sayyid Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, in 198 ...
, daughter of Haidar al-Sadr
Ancestors
Ancestor of the Sadr family, Sayyed Saleh Moussawi Ameli, was a descendant of Moussa al-Kazim, the seventh Shi'a Imam, through 27 generations:
# Sayyid Saleh
# Mohammad
# Ibrahim
# Zein el Abideen
# Ali Noureddine
# Noureddine Ali
# Ezzeddine Hussien
# Mohammad
# Hussien
# Ali
# Muhammad
# Tajeddine
# Mohammad
# Jalaleddine
# Ahmad
# Hamza
# Saadallah
# Hamza
# Abul Saadat
# Abu Mohammad
# Mohammad
# Abul Hasan Ali
# Abu Tahir
# Mohammad
# Tahir
# Hussien al Qat'i
# Moussa al Thani
# Ibrahim al Murtaza
# Imam Moussa Al Kadhim
# Imam Jaafar As Sadiq
# Imam Mohammad Al Baqir
# Imam Zein el Abideen
# Imam Al Hussien ibn Ali
# Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Prophet Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monoth ...