Sadr

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Sadr can refer to:

• The abbreviation for the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), the government-in-exile of the Polisario Front.
• The common name for the star Gamma Cygni.
• Sadr City, a neighbourhood in northeastern Baghdad.
• The Sadr family or a member thereof.

As-Sadr (or al-Sadr) can refer to the family named after Grand Ayatollah Sadr al-Din bin Saleh (Heart of the religion) of Qom, a branch of Sharafeddine family from Jabal Amel. The Sharafeddine family itself is a branch of the Nour eddine family, which traces its lineage to Imam Musa al-Kazim (the seventh Shi'a Imam, and through him to the first Imam, Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatima Zahra, the daughter of the prophet Muhammad.

Prominent members of this lineage include:

• Grand Ayatollah Sadr-ed-Deen bin Saleh,
  • Grand Ayatollah Ismail as-Sadr, (d. 1919-1920), son of Sadr-ed-Deen bin Saleh,
    • Muhammad Mahdi as-Sadr, son of Ismail as-Sadr,
      • Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq es-Sadr, a leading Iraqi cleric and father of Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq as-Sadr
        • Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq es-Sadr, (1943 – 1999), also known as "Sadr II".
          • Muqtada al-Sadr, (1973-), son of Sadr II, son-in-law of Sadr I, and great-grandnephew of Mohammad as-Sadr. In 2004 he led an uprising against American forces in Iraq. He heads a large militia and wields great influence in contemporary Iraqi politics.

• • • Grand Ayatollah Sadr al-Din al-Sadr (d.1954), 2.nd son of Ismail as-Sadr,
      • Imam Musa as-Sadr, (1928-1978?), son of Sadr al-Din al-Sadr and a Lebanese religious leader and a cousin of Sadeq and Baqir.

• • • Ayatollah Haydar al-Sadr, (1891 - 1937), son of Ismail as-Sadr,
      • Isma'il, son of Haydar al-Sadr
      • Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, (1935 – 1980), son of Haydar al-Sadr and a major Islamic thinker. He is also known as the "Third martyr" or "Sadr I". He is the father-in-law of Muqtada al-Sadr.
      • Amina Sadr bint al-Huda, daughter of Haydar al-Sadr, killed together with her brother

• Mohammad as-Sadr, Baghdadi leader of the 1920 revolution against the British government. He is an older cousin of Sadr I.