Musavi (name)

Musavi is a patronymic, common among Iranian Shi'a Muslims, though it is originally an 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
*Abbas al-Musawi
*Husayn Al-Musawi
*Ibrahim Mousawi
*Zacarias Moussaoui
*Syed Ali Raza Moussaouiwww.musavi.com.pk