Bint al-Hoda
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Bint al-Hoda was an Iraqi educator and political activist who was killed by Saddam Hussein along with her brother, Ayatollah Seyed Mohammad Baqer Sadr, in 1980.
Also called Aminah Haidar as-Sadr, Bint al-Hoda was born in 1938 in Kadhemiyah, Baghdad where she would eventually establish several religious schools for girls. Bint al-Hoda played a significant role in creating Islamic awareness among the Muslim women of Iraq. She was in her twenties when she began writing articles in al-Adhwaa ,the Islamic magazine printed by the religious intellectuals of an-Najaf, Iraq in 1959. She was also well know for her participation in the Safar Uprising in 1977.
Bint al-Hoda 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 Sayyed Mohammad Baqer al-Sadr and his sister, Bint-al-Hoda, were arrested. After three in custody, they were executed by the Iraqi regime.
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