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Musa al Musawi

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Name
  
Musa al-Musawi


Books
  
Shiʼah: A Critical Revision : the Conflict Between Shiʼah (the Belief) & Shiʼites (the People)

Musa al-Musawi (born 1930 in Najaf) wrote polemical, critical and revisionist texts on Shia Islam. His grandfather was Grand Ayatullah Abu al-Hasan al-Esfahani.

Contents

Books

al-Musawi wrote many books over a variety of topics.

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)

    • Criticism

    Al-Musawi's arguments against Shia Islam were refuted and criticized by Muhammad al-Tijani, an ex-Sunni imam who embraced Shia Islam after studying it and holding lengthy debates with the Shia religious scholars.

    References

    Musa al-Musawi Wikipedia
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