المرجعیة الدینیة فی العراق وموقفها من الاحداث الوطنیة حتى العام 1923

When the first world war broke out in 1914, great britain succeeded in extending its influence and control over many countries, especially the islamic ones. in iraq, the british army advanced and occupied basra on 5 october 1914. this british campaign against iraq was the first of its military operations against the ottoman empire. the ottomans were allies of germany. the ottoman army, which faced the british invasion, joined the regular army. large groups of iraqi mujahideen led by religious scholars found that the interest of islam, the islamic homeland and its sons had to stand with the ottoman empire in the face of the british invasion, islamic university between them. while many of the sons of iraq were fighting with the ottoman forces, they did not like the ottomans who tasted the iraqis but at the call of jihad, which was launched by clerics to preserve islam. but the ottoman administration in iraq, especially after the break-up of the ottoman army in the battle of shuaiba. even that the governors of baghdad sent a military campaign to najaf to discipline the population, but the campaign failed to defend civilians from their city and fled its troops fled since that date the najafis led by the religious authority, the helm of governance, not only the najafis, but they are working to undermine the ottoman empire iraq had a role in the most incidents that occurred in other cities of the middle euphrates.