Musa al-Musawi

Musa al-Musawi (1930-1997) was a Muslim scholar and professor of philosophy, he wrote books on philosophy and revisionist texts on Shia Islam. His grandfather was Grand Ayatullah Abu al-Hasan al-Esfahani whom he lived with for 17 years after the assassination of his father.

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): 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 Harvards the Iranian Oral History Project, the project is a collection of personal accounts of 134 individuals who played major roles in or were eyewitnesses to important political events in Iran from the 1920s to the 1980s. Amongst the people interviewed are Massoud Rajavi, Shapour Bakhtiar, Abolhassan Banisadr and Mehdi Haeri Yazdi.