Musavi (name)
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Musavi is a patronymic, common among Iranian Shi'a Muslims, even though it is originally a Arabic name. The name implies that the person is a direct desendant to the seventh of the Shi'a twelver Imams: Musa al-Kazim ibn Jafar as Sadiq. Other tranliterations include Musawi, Mosavi, "Mousawi" (Arabic transliteration), "Mousavi" (Persian transliteration), or "Moussaoui (in the French transliteration) "Moosawi" (Bahraini translation)
Some prominent people wearing this patronimy include:
- Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini — came to power in Iran after the 1979 Iranian revolution.
- Abdorrahim Musavi
- Ayatollah Sayyid Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi Kintoori Lakhnavi
- Abul-Hasan Mohammad Ben Al-Hossein Al-Musavi
- Mujtaba Musavi Lari
- Zacarias Moussaoui — the so-called "20th hijacker" in the September 11, 2001 attacks
[edit] See also
- List of Arabic names
