Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric and philosopher (born 1935)

Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr

Iraqi Islamic scholar (1935–1980)

Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, also known as al-Shahid al-Khamis, was an Iraqi Islamic scholar, philosopher, and the ideological founder of the Islamic Dawa Party. He was the father-in-law to Muqtada al-Sadr, a cousin of Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr and Musa al-Sadr. His father Haydar…