| Khodair al-Khozaei | |
|---|---|
| Second Vice President of Iraq | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office May 31, 2011 |
|
| President | Jalal Talabani |
| Preceded by | Tariq Al-Hashimi |
| Third Vice President of Iraq | |
| In office May 13, 2011 – May 31, 2011 |
|
| President | Jalal Talabani |
| Preceded by | Position estabilished |
| Succeeded by | TBD |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Baghdad, Iraq |
| Nationality | Iraqi |
| Political party | SIIC |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Religion | Shia Islam |
Dr. Khodair al-Khozaei (also transliterated as Khudayir al-Khuza'i) is the Iraqi Minister of Education and a member of the Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organisation party.
He was appointed by Prime Minister Maliki in May 2006.
He was born in 1947 in Maysan and obtained Doctorates in the Philosophy of Islamic Thought and Quranic Studies. He worked in universities and has written books on Quranic interpretation.[1]
He was elected to the Iraqi National Assembly in January 2005 and December 2005 as part of the United Iraqi Alliance list.
In 2008 his ministry published a book for primary schools pupils called "Islamic Education", which detailed the differences in prayer between Sunnis and Shiites. This was denounced by Grand Ayatollah Bashir al-Najafi, one of the most senior Shi'a clerics in Iraq, as "creating sectarianism" and "imposing one sect's control on another sect". Najafi said he refused to "listen to advice given to him with love by religious authorities in Najaf".[2]
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