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Ali Salman was born on 30 October, 1965 in Bilad Al Qadeem, Bahrain, is a Bahraini Shia cleric. Discover Ali Salman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

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Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 30 October, 1965
Birthday 30 October
Birthplace Bilad Al Qadeem, Bahrain
Nationality Bahrain

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Ali Salman Ahmed Salman (علي سلمان أحمد سلمان) is a Bahraini Twelver Shi'a cleric and the Secretary-General of the Al-Wefaq political society.

1990

Ali Salman is widely perceived to have been one of the leaders of the 1990s uprising in Bahrain.

1992

He is a Twelver Shiite who originally followed the quietist teachings of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, the spiritual leader of much of the Shia world until his death in 1992.

Following death of his original Marja’, Salman has not felt compelled to speak publicly about his new Marja’.

However, in a private interview he claimed that he now tended to rely on the rulings of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani.

This choice is significant as Salman does not rely on an external source of authority to justify his political positioning.

This following of Sistani is on a purely individual basis that does not spill over into the public sphere; Sistani is a Marja’ known for avoiding interference in the political choices of his followers.

1994

The starting point of the uprising is described as having been a charity marathon organised in November 1994 by several foreign companies.

As the marathon runners, both men and women dressed in shorts and T-shirts, entered some Shia villages, groups of villagers headed by activist clerics tried to stop them, considering that running among them in such light clothing was a direct insult to their religious and moral values.

Events disintegrated into fist-fighting and stone throwing.

The same night, security forces arrested several of the protesters, including Ali Salman.

His arrest sparked a cycle of mass-demonstrations that led to the death of a dozen demonstrators and the incarceration of hundreds of others.

Salman was the leader of several of these demonstrations.

Following his arrest in 1994, Salman was exiled and made his way to London, where he associated with the Bahrain Freedom Movement, an opposition group led by Saeed al-Shehabi.

Salman worked independently from the group but was in cooperation with them in order to achieve the political demands of the Bahrain uprising, mainly by releasing regular communiqués distributed in Bahrain in which they demanded the reinstatement of the Parliament.

Salman is the current official leader of Al Wefaq.

His legitimacy as leader is derived from elections that are held every four years in Al Wefaq's General Conference where at least 50%+1 of all members in Al Wefaq elect the Secretary-General, his deputy, the members of both Al Wefaq's Shura Council and Arbitration Board.

Salman faces little competition as leader of the movement and is regarded as an inspirational figure.

However, the General Conference is the supreme authority in Al Wefaq and is authorized to dismiss the Secretary-General and his deputy.

Al Wefaq's organisational structure includes a Shura Council which is half-elected every two years, so that half of the Council members will keep their positions for a period of four years.

The Shura Council is an advisory and monitoring board to the General-Secretariat which is formed by the Secretary-General.

The spiritual Godfather for the Wefaqi party is Sheikh Isa Qassim, a senior Bahraini cleric.

Sheikh Isa Qassim is the most prominent cleric in Bahrain with the biggest number of followers.

This can be clearly seen by comparing the number of people who pray behind him with those who pray behind other clerics.

He has proved his ability to contain the anger of the masses that pray behind him and listen to his sermon every Friday.

1995

In January 1995, the Bahraini government forcibly exiled him to Dubai for leading a popular campaign demanding the reinstatement of the constitution and the restoration of parliament during the 1990s Uprising.

From there he made his way to London and sought asylum.

He continued opposition activities from London, where he was associated with the Bahrain Freedom Movement.

2001

Salman returned to Bahrain in March 2001 in a general amnesty as part of a set of political reforms announced by King Hamad.

According to an unknown source close to his family, Sheikh Ali Salman was severely tortured by Al Khalifa regime in prisons.

Numerous protests were held the detention of Sheikh Ali Salman and several people were injured after the Al Khalifa forces fired tear gas and birdshots to disperse the protesters.

Within Al Wefaq he is considered a 'moderate' public face of the organization and has opposed the more confrontational approach with the authorities typical of the other leaders.

Ali Salman originally studied in Qom, a major centre of Twelver Shi'a theological thinking in Iran.

2002

For instance, in 2002, when the parliament was restored after about 30 years of suspension, Sheikh Issa Qassim's publicly declared advise to Al Wefaq was to participate in the elections, but Al Wefaq took a joint-decision with other opposition groups to boycott the 2002 elections in protest of the King's unkept promise to separate the three powers and transit from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy.

2011

He has been able to spread self-restraint among his followers even in the peak of regime-terror and brutality during the state of emergency in 2011 following the wide Arab-Spring-inspired pro-democracy protests.

However, small groups of youth do clash with the police.

Pro-regime groups believe that Ali Salman, the formal head of al-Wefaq and also a cleric, is “obeying the orders of Isa Qassim, his former teacher and superior in the clerical hierarchy”.

The independence of ‘Ali Salman as the formally elected leader of al-Wefaq is believed to be limited by his obligation, as a cleric who has not yet reached the level of independent reasoning (ijtihad), to submit his decisions to the sanction of a higher-ranking scholar.

Because its leadership is considered subservient to an external religious authority, and therefore, they argue al-Wefaq is considered as lacking the transparency for the normal exercise of internal democracy.

However, this claim fails to stand accurate in face of Al Wefaq's public and open strategy.