Muqtada – Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and The Struggle For Iraq . Patrick Cockburn. Scribner (Simon & Schuster), New York . 2008. By Jim Miles* An excellent work, Muqtada ends off right where current events pick up with the recent Iraqi army attacks ordered by Nuri al –Maliki in southern Iraq , Basra in particular. The media view that this was purely an Iraqi effort is put into place ...