The role of religious authority in the twentieth revolution The supreme religious authority, Sheikh Muhammad Taqi al-Shirazi, as a model

Abstract

The research deals with an Iraqi national figure who played a key role in mobilizing political events in Iraq prior to and during the 20th National Liberal Revolution. Iraq and the handover of governance to the Iraqis. This character is represented by the top reference Sheikh Sheikh Taqi al-Ha'iri Shirazi.The research reached several conclusions, the most important of which are: Sheikh Mohammed grew up in the martyrs in a family interested in science and knowledge, and his character was characterized by many qualities, and good manners, and subdued, and asceticism in the martyrs, and renounced the discrimination between the sons of one nation, and his courage and feet against the British occupation .From (1919-1920). The leadership role of Sheikh Mohammad Taqi al-Shirazi was characterized by two first periods, starting from his leadership of the religious authority in May 1919 and continued until March 1920. It was characterized by strengthening the role of the religious authority in opposing British projects and solving some of the problems faced by the national movement and taking a peaceful approach in dealing with the administration. The British continued to obtain the rights of the Iraqi people, and stressed the need to maintain peace and security, and not to shed blood, and continued the second period until his death on (August 17, 1920),where he took a firm position represented by authorizing the use of armed force to achieve the Iraqi national goals Declaration of the revolution against the British occupation. Sheikh Shirazi succeeded in winning over the majority of the Iraqi people. In addition to being a scholar and a brilliant political scientist, Sheikh Shirazi was able to exert great pressure on the British inside and outside Iraq, and he was able to incite the Iranians against British policy in the interest of Iraq and its independence. The aspirations of the Iraqi people for liberation and independence. Another role of the religious authority in the revolution of the twentieth is to mobilize, direct and put forward slogans and goals that reflect the national and Islamic content of the revolution, and work to spread the spirit of enthusiasm through speeches delivered in mosques and Husaynat or through the issuance and distribution of publications in various regions of Iraq. The jihadist fatwa of Sheikh Shirazi had a great impact in saving Iraq from the British occupation and made it march on the path of independence. In one of the sons of Sharif Hussein, the throne of Iraq. Al-Shirazi refused to distinguish between the components of Iraq and its various sects, and treated everyone equally after them citizens who have the right to live well in their