Musa al-Musawi

Musa al-Musawi (born 1930 in Najaf) was renowned for writing polemical revisionist texts on Shia Islam.^[1] His grandfather was Ayatullah al-Uzma 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 fundamental refutation of all parts of Shiism in its present existing form, with the authors 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 Imam 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)

See also

• Shia Islam
• Criticism of Twelver Shi'ism

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} A Shiite cleric’s criticism of Shiism: Musa al-Musawi, by Rainer Brunner
2. ^ The Twelver Shia in modern times: religious culture & political culture, By Rainer Brunner, Werner Ende, pg.178-187
3. ^ The miserable revolution, by Mūsawī, Mūsá al-Duktūr. Published in 1987, Dar Al-Maʼmun (Baghdad)

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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