Amina Haydar al-Sadr ( ar, آمنة حيدر الصدر), known as Bint al-Huda al-Sadr (), was an
Iraqi educator and political activist who was executed by
Saddam Hussein along with her brother, Ayatullah Sayyid
Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, in 1980.
Life and career
Aminah Haidar al-Sadr was born in 1937 in
Kazimiyah
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Baghdad where she would eventually establish several religious schools for girls. Bint al-Huda played a significant role in creating
Islamic
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awareness among the
Muslim
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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
The 1977 Shia protests in Iraq, or the Safar uprising, were a series of demonstrations and riots against the Iraqi government in Karbala and Najaf Governorates, the demonstrations started on 4 February 1977 and finished on 9 February in the same ye ...
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, the religious leader Ayatollah Sayyid
Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister, Bint al-Huda, were arrested, brutally tortured and later executed by Saddam Hussein's regime due to their leading role in the opposition to the regime.
The regime never returned her body, but her burial site is said to be in
Wadi Al-Salam, Najaf.
Works
* A Word And A Call - first book published in the 1960s
* Virtue Triumphs
* A Lady With The Prophet
* Two Women And A Man - a story about education and guidance
* Conflict of reality
* The Searcher Of Truth - published in 1979
* Memories On The Hills of Mecca - written after her pilgrimage Ito Mecca in 1973
* A Meeting At The Hospital
* The Lost Aunt
* Had I But Known
* The Game
* The Heroic Muslim Women
* Inner Debate
* The Lost Diary
* Choosing A Wife
* Determination
* Spiritual Journey
* A Bad Bargain
* The Gift
* A Visit To The Bride
* Inner Debate
* The Last Days
* Hard Times
* A New Start
* The Last Hours
* Struggling With Conflict
* Idleness
* Ingratitude
* Firm Stand
* The Dangerous Game
* A Muslim Student's Diary
See also
*
Nosrat Amin
*
Zohreh Sefati
*
Amina Bint al-Majlisi
References
External links
Safar Uprising
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1937 births
1980 deaths
People from Baghdad
Iraqi educators
Iraqi Shia Muslims
20th-century executions by Iraq
Iraqi women writers
Iraqi writers
20th-century women writers
20th-century Iraqi educators
Executed writers
20th-century Iraqi writers
20th-century women educators