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Ṣaddām City

district, Baghdad, Iraq

Also known as: Ṣadr City, Al-Thawrah quarter, Madinat al-Thawrah

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geography of Baghdad

In Baghdad: Districts
…between 1982 and 2003, as Saddam City.
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role of Ṣadr

In Muqtada al-Sadr: Patron of Shiʿi populism during the Iraq War
…million Shiʿis, which he renamed Sadr City in honour of his father. By the end of that year Sadr headed a Shiʿi political movement known as the Sadrist Movement and had attracted millions of Shiʿi followers across Iraq, mainly youth and the poor and downtrodden, to whom he offered a…
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