Baghdad International Dialogue
Held in Baghdad on April 7, 2018
The Second Baghdad Dialogue Conference
Under the slogan “The Two Martyrs al-Baqir: Unity of Purpose and Integration of Methodology,” and under the patronage of Sheikh Dr. Humam Hamoudi, First Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, and with broad international participation from 15 countries and the presence of a select group of leading thinkers from across the Islamic world, the International al-Baqir Conference was held yesterday, Saturday, April 7, 2018, as part of the Baghdad Dialogue events, at the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad.
The International al-Baqir Conference is the first of its kind, and its convening coincided with the 38th anniversary of the martyrdom of Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (1980) and the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Ba’ath Party regime in Iraq (2003).
The conference, organized by the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq, was attended by dozens of religious, political, intellectual, and academic figures from inside and outside Iraq. Several research papers and studies were presented, addressing aspects of the lives, works, and struggles of the two martyrs, al-Sadr and al-Hakim.
At the opening session of the conference, which was held under the slogan (The Two Martyrs al-Baqir: Unity of Purpose and Integration of Methodology), speeches were delivered by Iraqi President Fuad Masum, Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Salim al-Jabouri, President of the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq Sheikh Humam Hamoudi, Secretary-General of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought Sheikh Mohsen al-Araki, Sheikh Muhammad al-Zoubi, member of the Assembly of Muslim Scholars in Lebanon, and Dr. Shibli Mallat, Professor of Law at the University of Utah in the United States.
