Moosavi (name)
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Moosavi (موسوی) is a patronymic, common among Iranian Shi'a Muslims, though it is originally an Arabic name. The name implies that the person is a direct descendant to the seventh of the Shi'a twelver Imams: Musa al-Kazim ibn Jafar as Sadiq. Other tranliterations include Musawi, Mosavi, Mousawi (Arabic transliteration), Moosavi (Persian transliteration), or Moussaoui (in the French transliteration) Moosawi (Bahraini translation) Al Mosawi (English translation).[citation needed]
Some prominent people wearing this patronym include:
- Seyyed Razi, compiler of Nahjul Balagha
- Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini - first Supreme Leader of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution
- Abdorrahim Moosavi - Chief of the Joint Staff of the Iranian armed forces
- Ayatollah Sayyid Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi Kintoori Lakhnavi - a 19th century Shia scholar in India
- Abul-Hasan Mohammad Ben Al-Hossein Al-Musavi - a 10th century Shia scholar in Baghdad
- Mujtaba Musavi Lari - a Shia scholar and writer on Islamic Doctrine, Imamate and Leadership
- Abbas Musawi - former Secretary-General of Hezbollah
- Husayn Al-Musawi - Lebanese founder of the Shia militia Islamic Amal and member of Hezbollah
- Mohammed Moussaoui - President of the French Council of Muslim Faith
- Ibrahim Mousawi - Lebanese Hezbollah spokesman
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi - an Iranian reformist politician and candidate for the 2009 presidential election
- Madhiha Hassan al-Mosuwi - an aid worker for the Iraqi government who some people have begun calling the "Mother Teresa of Baghdad"
- Ali Mousavi - Iranian football player
- Hussain Al-Moussawi - Kuwaiti football player
- Ikbal Ali Shah - sufi teacher and writer, as well as his descendants Idries Shah, Omar Ali-Shah, Tahir Shah and Saira Shah
- Zacarias Moussaoui (born 1968) - French terrorist known for his role in the 9/11 attacks.
