He was born in July 1929.
He was taught to learn the Qur'an since the age of six.
He learnt a large portion of the Qur'an in a short time.
He then studied grammar, usage, ethics and beliefs with his brothers Sheikh Omar and Sheikh Osmani, former leaders of the Islamic Movement.
In 1952, he became the first principal of a primary school in the village of Upper Press. In 1962, he became the director of the Islamic Institute and the preacher of the Great Mosque of Mohammed Pasha in Halabja.
During his life, especially in the 1960s, he suffered for the sake of Islamic preaching, discourse and positions. In 1975, he was transferred to the town of al-Hasaybah, west of Baghdad. Then the ministry moved him to Nasiriyah, then to Karbala, then to Fallujah and then to Basra. In 1979, he was returned to Halabja at the request of the Kurdistan Religious Scholars Council.
After the Iranian Revolution and the outbreak of the war between Iraq and Iran, the Iraqi authorities harassed the scholars in general and the scholars of Halabja in particular, because they saw Halabja as the center of the Islamic revival. They accused them of being linked to the Iranian revolution, so they forced them to leave the city and migrate. After Sheikh Osman and Sheikh Ali Halabja went to Iran and joined the Islamic Union, the Union changed to the Islamic Movement at a congress. Sheikh Osman Abdulaziz, Mullah Ali's brother, was appointed general leader and Mullah Ali was elected deputy leader.
In 1997, Mullah Ali succeeded his brother as leader of the Islamic Movement and Sheikh Osman as leader of the Islamic Awakening.
After the arrest of Ali Bapir, Mullah Ali Raber was also arrested and released a few days later.
He died on #17-03-2007# in London after a brief struggle with illness.[1]