Lebanon's most seniorrnShi'ite cleric died July 4 at 75. His name, Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, will mean nothing to most Americans, but he has been a central figure in modern Middle Eastern history.rnFadlallah was one of thernearly leaders of Da'wa, the same Islamic group to which Iraq's current Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, belongs. In the 1980s, Fadlallah was at the top of the Reagan Administration's enemy list. The White House mistakenly shared the assumption he was the spiritual leader of Hizballah, the Lebanese militant group the U.S. was at war with at the time.
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