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Iraqi educator and political activist (1938–1980) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amina Haydar al-Sadr (Arabic: آمنة حيدر الصدر; 1937 – 1980), known as Bint al-Huda al-Sadr (بنت الهدى الصدر), was an Iraqi educator and political activist who was executed by Saddam Hussein's regime along with her brother, Ayatullah Sayyid Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, in 1980.[1]
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Sayyida Allawiya Amina Al-Sadr | |
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Born | 1937 |
Died | 1980 (aged 42–43) |
Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
Father | Haydar al-Sadr |
Relatives | Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (brother) |
Aminah Haidar al-Sadr was born in 1937[2] in Kazimiyah, Baghdad where she would eventually establish several religious schools for girls. Bint al-Huda played a significant role in creating Islamic awareness among the Muslim women of Iraq. She was in her twenties when she began writing articles in al-Adwaa, an Islamic magazine printed by the religious intellectuals of Najaf, Iraq, in 1959. She was also well known for her participation in the Safar Uprising in 1977. Bint al-Huda grew up with a serious love of learning. She soon became aware of what she perceived to be the Muslim women's sufferings and the great disasters which were damaging Islamic ideology in her country.
In 1980, she and her brother, the religious leader Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, were arrested, brutally tortured and later executed by Saddam Hussein's regime due to their leading role in the opposition to the regime. It has been reported that Saddam Hussein himself killed them.[3] The Baathists delivered the bodies of Baqir al-Sadr and Bint al-Huda to their cousin Sayyid Mohammad al-Sadr,[3] and were buried in the Wadi-us-Salaam graveyard in the holy city of Najaf the same night.[4]
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