Draft:Iyad Jamal al-Din
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| Name | Iyad Jamal al-Din |
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| Birth Place | Najaf, Iraq |
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| Religion | Islam |
Iyad Jamal al-Din (born 1961) is an Iraqi politician, cleric, and thinker. He was affiliated with the Al-Ahrar Party, which was part of the Al-Iraqiya coalition list. From 2005 to 2010, he served as a deputy in the Iraqi Parliament representing Dhi Qar Province.
Birth
Iyad Raouf Muhammad Jamal al-Din was born in 1961 in Najaf to a family originally from Nasiriyah in southern Iraq.
Education
He remained in Iraq until the age of 18, completing his primary and secondary education there. Due to Saddam Hussein's persecution of Shia Muslims, he left Iraq in 1979, first for Syria and then for Iran. For eight years, he attended advanced religious studies (dars al-kharij) at the Qom Seminary, where he studied Islamic sciences, philosophy, and Sufism.
Migration to the UAE
In 1995, at the invitation of Shia communities in Dubai, he moved to the United Arab Emirates, where he resided until 2003. He returned to Iraq following the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime[1].
Political Views
He believes that democracy must be imposed by force. He opposes the establishment of a state based on a religious system, specifically the Shia concept of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist (Velayat-e Faqih), and advocates for a secular state free from clerical interference that guarantees the freedom of minorities. He also criticizes Arab regimes and peoples for embracing, in his view, a distorted version of Islam that incites and supports terrorism[2].
He has survived four unsuccessful assassination attempts.
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