Islamic Dawa Party – Iraq Organisation
Islamic Dawa Party – Iraq Organisation حزب الدعوة الاسلامية - تنظيم العراق | |
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Secretary-General | Nouri al-Maliki |
Founder | Hashim Al-Mosawy |
Founded | after 2003 |
Headquarters | Baghdad |
Military wing | Quwat al-Shaheed al-Sadr's 35th Brigade (ar)[1] |
Ideology | Shia Islamism Clericalism Islamic fundamentalism |
National affiliation | State of Law Coalition |
Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq: | 0 / 329 |
Seats in the local governorate councils: | 0 / 440 |
Website | |
aldaawa-io.org | |
The Islamic Dawa Party – Iraq Organisation (Arabic: Ḥizb al Daʿwa al-Islāmiyya - Tanzim al-Iraq) is the Iraqi branch of the Islamic Dawa Movement officially registered after the fall of the Ba'athist regime and a political party in Iraq which was a component of the United Iraqi Alliance. It was allocated 12 seats by the Alliance after the elections in December 2005. It was led by Hashim Al-Mosawy, who was its Secretary-General. The head of the parliamentary bloc of the party was Kasim Muhammad Taqi al-Sahlani.[2] The current Secretary-General is Nouri al-Maliki.
The Islamic Dawa Party was formed in 1957 in the Iraqi holy City of Najaf. Their aim was to create a movement which would promote Islamic values and ethics, and which would become an instrument for political activeness. This came at a time when there was widespread ignorance about religion and politics in Iraq. Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr laid out the foundations for the party and its political ideology, based on Wilayat Al-Umma (Governance of the people).