Ḥizb al-Daʿwa al-Islāmiyya - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Bernhardt, Florian
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Leiden
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Brill
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Ḥizb al-Daʿwa al-Islāmiyya (the Party of the Islamic Call) is the oldest Shīʿī Islamist party of Iraq, founded at the end of the 1950s in Najaf. Its formation was a response of young ʿulamāʾ and members of the educated middle class to Western hegemony and the increasing secularisation of Iraqi society, which was reflected in the rise of the Iraqi Communist Party and the decreasing influence of the ḥawza , the Shīʿī seminary of higher learning. While both the exact date and the circumstances of al-Daʿwa's genesis