Musa al-Musawi
Musa al-Musawi (born 1930 in Najaf) wrote polemical, critical and revisionist texts on Shia Islam.[1] His grandfather was Grand Ayatullah Abu al-Hasan al-Esfahani.
Books
al-Musawi wrote many books over a variety of topics.[1][2]
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):[3] 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)
Criticism
Al-Musawi's arguments against Shia Islam were refuted and criticized by Muhammad al-Tijani,[4] an ex-Sunni imam who embraced Shia Islam after studying it and holding lengthy debates with the Shia religious scholars.
See also
Notes
- 1 2 A Shiite cleric’s criticism of Shiism: Musa al-Musawi, by Rainer Brunner
- ↑ The Twelver Shia in modern times: religious culture & political culture, By Rainer Brunner, Werner Ende, pg.178-187
- ↑ The miserable revolution, by Mūsawī, Mūsá al-Duktūr. Published in 1987, Dar Al-Maʼmun (Baghdad)
- ↑ Muhammad al-Tijani: With Dr. al-Mousawi and his "Authentication"
External links
- Iranian Oral History Project, transcripts in Persian, by Musa al-Musawi-Esfahani
- Iranian Oral History Tape, by Musa Al-Musawi-Esfahani
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