Al-Musawi
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الموسوي translated as Al-Mosawi or Al-Musawi (Arabic: الموسوي, pronounced Mūsavi in Persian), is a surname that presumably indicates a person comes from a prestigious and highly respected Middle Eastern family with a transnational identity. Members of this family are referred to by the Anglicised version of their name as Hashemites. They are usually given the honorific title Sayyid before their first name. The literal translation of the Arabic word Sayyid is Sir or "liege lord" in the English language. This family is mainly based in the Mesopotamian region, they also live in other Middle Eastern, most notably Iraq. Though no written records or genetics studies done on this family, verbal history claims that the name implies that this person is a direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through the seventh of the Shi'a twelve Imams: Musa al-Kazim ibn Jafar as Sadiq who is a grandson of Muhammad. Other transliterations include Musawi, Mosavi, Mousawi (Arabic transliteration), Moosavi (Persian transliteration), or Moussaoui (in the French transliteration) Moosawi (Bahraini translation) Al Mosawi (English translation). Also some Mousavis take the last name of Kazmi. Many Al-Mosawis migrated from Mecca and Madina Saudi Arabia to a small village that their ancestor Musa Al-Kadhim built in Baghdad Iraq. Large members of this family are located in Iraq, and they are also located in other countries such as Iran, Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab countries, United States Of America, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Al-Mosawi family is an influential Middle Eastern family because they are directly descended from the 7th Shia Imam Musa Al-Kadhim who is the son of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq son of Imam Muhammad Al-Baqir son of Imam Ali Zayn al-Abidin son of Imam Hussain son of Imam Ali Bin Abi Talib and the son of Fatimah the daughter of the Muhammad. Members of the Al-Mosawi family are called with the title Sayed literally means Mister or Sir. As an honorific title, it denotes males accepted as the direct descendants of the Muhammad.
The roots of the Al-Mosawi family is supposedly claimed to be Arab that comes from the Head tribe of Banu Hashim, a clan of Quraish which makes them Adnani Arabs or Northern Arabs who are originated from Ibrahim through his son Ishmael in Mesopotamia which is nowadays Iraq in the ancient city of Ur near Nasariyah in Southern Iraq. Many Arab tribes trace their lineage through Adnan who is the Father of the Arabs that traces his lineage to Ishmael the son of Ibrahim the great great grandfather of the Adnani Arabs.
Although no statistical data available to the day, but it is believed that most members of this tribe adhere to Shia Islam the Twelvers or Jafari approx 90-95% of the family are Shia muslims the rest are Sunni Islam which holds the name of Hussaini Al-Musawi and other noticeable Mosawi family names.
Prominent Members
- Ruhollah Khomeini - (September 1902 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian religious leader and scholar, politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. (Khomaini is of Mosawi descent,He descended from the Safavid dynasty.[1]
- Abdorrahim Musavi - is the Chief of the Joint Staff of the Iranian armed forces.
- Ayatollah Sayyid Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi Kintoori Lakhnavi - was a leading Shia scholar of his time in India.
- Abul-Hasan Mohammad Ben Al-Hossein Al-Musavi - (~930-977 CE) was a Shia Muslim scholar and poet who was born in Baghdad. His most famous book is Nahj al-Balaghah which is a collection of Imam Ali’s sayings and speeches.
- Mujtaba Musavi Lari - is a Shi'a Twelver Islamic scholar.
- Abbas al-Musawi - (1952 - 16 February 1992) was an influential Muslim cleric and leader of Hezbollah.
- Husayn Al-Musawi - is a Lebanese Shia who founded the now-dissolved pro-Iranian Islamist militia Islamic Amal in 1982.
- Ibrahim Mousawi - is a Lebanese journalist and Hezbollah media relations officer.
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi - (born 29 September 1941) is an Iranian reformist politician, painter and architect who served as the fifth and last Prime Minister of the Islamic republic of Iran from 1981 to 1989.
- 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
- Musa al-Musawi - a renowned Shiite cleric for writing polemical revisionist texts on Shia Islam
- Dhiyaa Al-Musawi - Bahraini author and cleric.
Al-Mosawi Splinter Families
Notes
- ↑ الشيعة في التاريخ,السيد علاء الموسوي العاملي