Islamic Daʿwah Party

…the mid-1960s he joined the Islamic Daʿwah Party, then an underground movement. After completing high school, he left Karbala to study medicine in the northern city of Mosul, where he obtained a medical degree in 1974. While in Mosul, he was given responsibility for the recruitment of Daʿwah members in…

In 1963 he joined the Islamic Daʿwah Party, an underground Shiʿi political party. Despite party splits, Maliki remained faithful to the original faction. In 1979, facing persecution from Saddam Hussein’s regime, he left Iraq for Jordan and then moved to Syria and later Iran, where he arrived in 1982. The…

…Baqir al-Sadr, founder of the Islamic Daʿwah Party, who in 1980 was executed for his opposition to Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein.