Sheikh Isa Abdullah Al Jowder () was a

Sunni Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam and the largest religious denomination in the world. It holds that Muhammad did not appoint any successor and that his closest companion Abu Bakr () rightfully succeeded him as the caliph of the Mu ...

cleric and nationalist political activist in

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. He was a member of the

Haq Movement The Haq Movement for Liberty and Democracy () is an opposition political organization in Bahrain founded in November 2005 with Hasan Mushaima as its secretary general. Several of its leaders were previously in the leadership of the Al Wefaq soc ...

. He was a signatory to both the 1992 and the 1994 petitions calling on the then

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to reinstate the authority of the 1973 elected parliament (dissolved by Amiri decree in 1975). He was briefly arrested by the government during the

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. He had previously been arrested for his political activities in 1957, 1963 and 1968. He died on Saturday, September 24, 2011.الوسط العدد 3305 بتاريخ 25-09-2011م

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The cleric who engineered petitions from the heart of Galali village
'' Al Wasat'' newspaper, 31 May 2006 (Arabic)
Shaikh Isa al-Jowder: A Cleric and a Nationalist

Al-Waqt ''Al-Waqt'' ( meaning ''The Time'') was a Bahraini Arabic-language daily newspaper. It was published between 2006 and 2010. History and profile ''Al Waqt'' was first published on 21 February 2006. Khawla Mattar was among the founders of the pape ...

newspaper, 6 July 2007 (Arabic)
We need a Tutu here too

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jowder, Isa Bahraini activists Bahraini dissidents Bahraini Sunni Muslims Haq Movement politicians 2011 deaths Year of birth missing