Isa Qassim information

Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Ahmed Qassim (Arabic: آية الله الشيخ عيسى أحمد قاسم) is Bahrain's leading Shia cleric and a politician. He is the spiritual...

political system, with the most senior Shia religious leader, Sheikh Isa Qassim, playing an extremely important role. According to one academic paper...

the intellectual development of Twelver Shia Islam. Isa Qassim Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Ahmed Qassim (Arabic: آية الله الشيخ عيسى أحمد قاسم) is Bahrain's...

political system, with the most senior Shia religious leader, Sheikh Isa Qassim, playing a vital role. This was especially evident when in 2005 the government...

opposition party al-Wefaq, Isa Qassim was stripped of his Bahraini citizenship. An interior ministry statement accused Sheikh Isa Qassim of "using his position...

spiritual Godfather for the Wefaqi party is Sheikh Isa Qassim, a senior Bahraini cleric. Sheikh Isa Qassim is the most prominent cleric in Bahrain with the...

appointed Minister of Health Hasan Mushaima, Bahraini political activist Isa Qassim, spiritual leader of Al Wefaq, Bahrain's biggest opposition society. He...

taken against Sheikh Isa, who was innocent, violated national and international law. On 20 June 2016, Ayatullah Sheikh Isa Qassim was stripped of his nationality...

Sunnis to vote and run in the elections. Shia religious scholar Sheikh Isa Qassim has been urging voters to go to turn out in the polls. "Boycotting the...

the then ruler Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa because it refused to pass the government sponsored State Security Law of 1974. Isa subsequently refused...

city; Shaykh Salih Shehada (40), a University instructor from Beit Hanoun; 'Isa al-Nashshar (35), an engineer in Rafah; Muhammad Sham'a (50), a teacher in...

two-day sit in front of his house to dissuade him from his decision. Isa Qassim, Bahrain's top Shia cleric, visited him twice for the same purpose. However...

to the attention of the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, who has appeared with Al Qassim on Bahraini newspaper covers. His two sons, Their Highnesses...

Mohaqiq Kabuli Allahshukur Pashazadeh Abdul Amir al-Jamri Ali Salman Isa Qassim Mohammad al-Sannad [fa] Ali Naqi Naqvi Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati Aga...

Bahraini Shiite clerics, including Isa Qassim, condemned what they called "the shameless destruction of mosques." Qassim later urged the government to show...

"showed they were well maintained, decades-old structures." In 2016, Sheikh Isa Qassim, a leading Shi'a figure, was placed under house arrest. Protests around...

and focal point of the protest movement. Leading Shia cleric, Sheikh Isa Qassim, said during Friday prayers in Diraz that people were demanding their...

inciting sectarianism. The banners, allegedly quoting leading Shia cleric, Isa Qassim, read, "The battle of Karbala is still going on between the two sides...

Isa, who said: (The well-known family of Saqiyyah left the country of Ashqir in the year approximately nine hundred and fifty and went to Al-Qassim,...

leading Shia cleric Isa Qassim welcomed the dialogue. "These are good steps in the right direction," he said. However, Qassim said jailed opposition...

relationship between al-Miqdad and Al Wafa' is comparable to that of Isa Qassim and Al Wefaq; its unofficial spiritual leader. Sa'eed al-Nori is a religious...