   ayatollah mohammad baqir al-hakim (1939- 29 august 2003; ), also known as shaheed al-mehraab, was a senior iraqi shia cleric and the leader of the supreme council for islamic revolution in iraq. he was assassinated in a bomb attack in najaf in 2003. ==biography== ===early life=== al-hakim was born in najaf in 1939 into the hakim family of shiite religious scholars. he was the son of muhsin al-hakim and fawzieh hassan bazzi. al-hakim was the uncle of muhammad sayid al-hakim. ===political activities in iraq=== he co-founded the modern islamic political movement in iraq in the 1960s, along with mohammad baqir al-sadr, with whom he worked closely until the latter's death in 1980. though not among the most hard-line of islamists, al-hakim was seen as dangerous by the ruling ba'ath regime, largely because of his agitation on behalf of iraq's majority shia population (the ruling regime was mostly sunnis). this led to his arrest in 1972, for promoting nikah mut'ah, a legal form of temporary marital relationship in the shia sect, but he was released shortly thereafter. he was partially blamed for the uprising in najaf that occurred in february 1977, and so was arrested again, and this time sentenced to life imprisonment. however, his sentence was commuted and he was released in july 1979. the subsequent eruption of war between iraq and (largely shia) iran led to an ever-increasing distrust of iraq's shia population by the ruling ba'ath party; combined with his previous arrests, this convinced al-hakim that it was impossible to continue his shia advocacy in iraq, and in 1980 he fled to iran. ===sci
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