Moosavi (name)

For other uses, see bahr (disambiguation).

Moosavi موسوي

Top row (left to right) Ruhollah Khomeini • Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr • Musa al-Sadr Abbas Almohri • Navvab Safavi • Muqtada al-Sadr Abbas I of Persia • Ismail I • Tahmasp I Mir-Hossein Mousavi • Yahya Rahim Safavi
Religion
Twelver Shi'a Islam
Related ethnic groups
Kazemi, Rizvi, Naqvi , Safavi , Sadr, al-Zaidi, Jafari, Fatimid, And Other Hashemites

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
• 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.