Moussa Sadr | |
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موسى صدر الدین صدر | |
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| 1st Leader of the Amal Movement | |
| In office 6 July 1974 – 31 August 1978 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Hussein el-Husseini |
| 1st President of the Supreme Islamic Shia Council | |
| In office 23 May 1969 – 31 August 1978 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Mohd. Mehdi Shamseddine |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 June 1928[1] Qom, Imperial State of Persia (present-day Iran[2]) |
| Died | Unknown |
| Resting place | Unknown |
| Political party |  Amal Movement |
| Other political affiliations | Supreme Islamic Shia Council |
| Spouse | Parvin Khalili |
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| Relatives | Ismail Sadr (grandfather) Haydar Sadr (uncle) Muhammad Sadr (cousin) Sadeq Tabatabaei (nephew) Zohreh Sadeghi (niece) |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran Qom Seminary |
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| Went missing on 31 August 1978 (aged 50) in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya[3] and has been Missing for 46 years, 2 months and 24 days | |
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Musa Sadr al-Din al-Sadr (Arabic: موسى صدر الدین الصدر) (Persian: موسى صدر الدين صدر); 4 June 1928 – disappeared 31 August 1978) was a Lebanese-Iranian Shia Muslim cleric, politician and revolutionary In Lebanon, he founded and revived many Lebanese Shia organizations, including schools, charities, and the Amal Movement.[4]
Born in the Chaharmardan neighborhood in Qom, Iran, he underwent both seminary and secular studies in Iran. He belongs to the Sadr family from Jabal Amel in Lebanon, a branch of the Musawi family which traces its roots to Musa Ibn Jaafar, the seventh Shia Imam, and ultimately to the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatima. Therefore, Musa Sadr is often styled with the honorific title Sayyid. He left Qom for Najaf to study theology and returned to Iran after the 1958 Iraqi coup d'état.
Some years later, Sadr went to Tyre, Lebanon as the emissary of Ayatollahs Borujerdi and Hakim. From Tyre, he published the periodical, Maktabi Islam.[5] Fouad Ajami called him a "towering figure in modern Shi'i political thought and praxis".[6] He gave the Shia population of Lebanon "a sense of community".[7]
On 25 August 1978, Sadr and two companions, Sheikh Mohamad Yaacoub and Abaass Bader el Dine, departed for Libya to meet with government officials at the invitation of Muammar Gaddafi. The three were last seen on 31 August. They were never heard from again. Many theories exist around the circumstances of Sadr's disappearance, none of which have been proven. His whereabouts remain unknown to this day.
- ^ سيرة سماحة الإمام القائد السيد الصدر Archived 21 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine Arabic
- ^ Ende, W. (2012). "Mūsā al- Ṣadr". Encyclopedia of Islam. Brill.
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- ^ Nasr, Seyyed H. (1989). Expectation of the Millennium: Shiʻism in History. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, Albany. p. 425. ISBN 9780887068430., chapter 26
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