العلامة عبد الحسين مطر الخفاجي (1875ـ1944

Abstract

In the history of modern Iraq, there have been many characters   emerged that are worthy of study and attention, those are destined to play an effective role and influence in the course of political events or participate in making them. Abdul Hussein Matar Al-Khafaji is one of these Iraqi personalities whose lives were marked by work and activism in the political and national fields during the monarchy period. His political work coincided with the early stages of the battle of Shuaiba in 1914, as he worked to raise the concerns of the people of the Muntafiq province, and reunite them. Then he  joined the jihad campaign when Muhammad Kazem Al-Yazdi decreed that jihad should be defended in the land of Islam. Sheikh Abdul Hussein Matar al-Khafaji also played a major role in the twentieth revolution. He is considered the ideal of the composure and indifference that confronted the occupation. The 1935 uprising in the Souk Al Shyoukh city was the end of the jihadist work of the scholar Sheikh Abdul Hussein Al-Matar Al-Khafaji. He was then considered a criminal, and he and his son Abdul Mahdi were wanted to appear before the military councils. After the efforts and mediation of some political figures in Baghdad, the authority ordered to exile them to the town of Samara  for a few months, and then allow them to transfer to the town of Kadhimiyah, but they remained cut off from their families in Najaf for some time, then they were allowed to transfer to the city of Najaf.