AL-RAHIM, Ahmed H

The Sistani Factor - Washington, DC : The Johns Hopkins University Press , July 2005

For the Shi'ite majority and its senior religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani, the January elections played out against the background of a longing for justice that has deep spiritual and historical sources as well as more recent sociopolitical roots.


Sistani, Ali al-Husayni -- Political and social views.
Iraq. Parliament -- Elections, 2005.
Islam and politics -- Iraq.
Shiites -- Iraq -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century