It was named after the Caliph al-Amin.^{[citation needed]} In 2003, Shiites renamed it to "Al-Murthadha District", after Ali Murthadha, the first Shiite imam.^[1]

The controversial airstrikes on July 12, 2007, by a US army attack helicopter, which killed a number of civilians, among them two Reuters news staff, took place here.

Variant transliterations into English

"al-Amin"^[2]/"Amin"^[3]/"Ameen"^[4]
"Thanniyah" can also be spelled "Thania" or "Thanya".

References

[1]
"FOXNews.com - Shiites Renaming Baghdad Streets - U.S. & World". Fox News. Archived from the original on 2008-03-20.
[2]
"Blogger".
[3]
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-04-01. Retrieved 2010-04-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
[4]
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/iraq/maps/280a%2520A4%2520Baghdad%2520districts%2520neighbourh%2520300dpi.pdf (see sector 34, "Mashtal, Ameen, Nafit, Rustomiya", in the District "7 Nissan".)

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