Khomeini family

Khomeini family
خاندان خمینی

Khomeinis
Earlier spellingsNishapuri
Hindi
Musawi
Founded1834; 190 years ago (1834) in Khomeyn
FounderAhmad Hindi
Current headHassan Khomeini
HeirloomsMausoleum of Khomeini

The Khomeini family (Persian: خاندان خمینی, romanized: Khumaynī, IPA: [xomejˈniː]), also transliterated as Khomeyni, is an Iranian religious Shia family that migrated from Nishapur, to Awadh in the 18th-century, and then finally settling in Khomeyn in the early 19th-century.[1][2][3][4][5][6] They claim descent from the seventh Shiite Imam, Musa al-Kadhim, and hence are a Musawi family.[7]

  1. ^ Algar, Hamid (2010). "A short biography". In Koya, Abdar Rahman (ed.). Imam Khomeini: Life, Thought and Legacy. Islamic Book Trust. p. 19. ISBN 978-9675062254.
  2. ^ Sacred space and holy war: the politics, culture and history of Shi'ite Islam by Juan Ricardo Cole
  3. ^ Art and culture: endeavours in interpretation by Ahsan Jan Qaisar, Som Prakash Verma, Mohammad Habib
  4. ^ From Khomein, A biography of the Ayatollah, 14 June 1999, The Iranian
  5. ^ Algar, Hamid (2010). "A short biography". In Koya, Abdar Rahman (ed.). Imam Khomeini: Life, Thought and Legacy. Islamic Book Trust. p. 20. ISBN 978-9675062254.
  6. ^ The Columbia world dictionary of Islamism by Olivier Roy, Antoine Sfeir
  7. ^ A Critical Introduction to Khomeini by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam