Musa al-Musawi

Imam Dr[citation needed] Musa al-Musawi
Musa al-Musawi
Title	Imam Dr[citation needed]
Personal
Born	1930 Najaf, Mandatory Iraq
Died	1997 Los Angeles, United States
Religion	Islam
Nationality	Iranian, Iraqi
Main interest(s)	Islamic philosophy
Notable idea(s)	Shia reformism
Notable work(s)	The Miserable Revolution, Shiah:a critical revision
Occupation	Professor
Muslim leader
Disciple of	Abu l-Hasan al-Isfahani, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei
Influenced by Abu l-Hasan al-Isfahani, Salafi movement
Post	Professor of Islamic Economics at the University of Tehran 1960-1963, Lecturer of Islamic Philosophy at the Tripoli University in Libya 1973-1974, Research associate at the Harvard University 1975-1978 and lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles 1978

Musa al-Musawi (1930-1997) was a Muslim scholar and professor of philosophy, he wrote books on

Timeline of his life

• Pursued his studies at the University of Tehran and obtained a doctorate's in Islamic Law in 1955.
• Studied at Sorbonne University where he earned his second doctorates in 1959.
• Professor of Islamic Economics at the University of Tehran 1960–1963.
• Elected deputy for
  Iranian Parliament
  1960–1963.
• Narrowly escaped death when some
  Savak agents of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
  , the shah of Iran made an attempt on his life in 1968.
• Lecturer of Islamic Philosophy at the
  Baghdad University
  1968-78 as a professor.
• Was for some time
  Tripoli University in Libya
  1973–1974.
• Became a research associate at the Harvard University 1975-1978 and lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles 1978.
• Dr Musa al-Musawi ran for the presidential election after the
  Islamic revolution of Iran
  , 1980.
• President of the High Islamic Council of the Americas since 1981 and founder of Human rights for Islamic countries from 1992 to 1997.

Books

al-Musawi wrote many books over a variety of topics.^[2][3]

Books on Shiite doctrine

• al-Shi’a wa-l-tashih: al-Sira’ bayn al-shi’a wa-l-tashayyu’ (the struggle between Shia and Shiism), 160 pages (Los Angeles 1987, Cairo 1989, Paris 1997), is a "refutation" of all parts of Shia Islam in its present existing form, with the author's aim of "purging Shiism of all aberrations and deviations that were inflicted upon it over the course of time."
• al-Sarkha al-kubra. ‘Aqidat al-shi’a fi usul al-din wa-furu’ihi fi ‘asr al-a’imma wa-ba’dahum (Los Angeles 1991)
• Ya shi’at al-‘alam istayqiza (s.l., ca. 1995),
• al-Thawra al-ba’isa (The Miserable Revolution):^[4] a critique of Ruhollah Khomeini and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• al-Mudtahidan

Books on Islamic philosophy

• Min al-Suhrawardi ila l-Kindi (Beirut 1979)
• Min al-Kindi ila ibn Rushd (Beirut, Paris 1977)
• al-Jadid fi falsafat Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi (Baghdad 1978)

Books on contemporary politics within Iran in the 1970s and ‘80s

• Iran fi rub qarn (Baghdad 1972)
• al-Thawra al-ba’isa (s.l., ca. 1985)

Iranian Oral History Project

Dr Musa al-Musawi was interviewed for 5 hours by Shahla Haeri for