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)
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
