Sadr al-Din Sadr ( ar, صدر الدين الصدر) (1882 – 26 November 1953
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Moussa as-Sadr Musa Sadr al-Din al-Sadr ( ar, موسى صدر الدين الصدر; 4 June 1928 – disappeared 31 August 1978) was an Iranian-born Lebanese scholar and political leader who founded the Amal Movement. Born in the Chaharmardan neighborhood o ...

(disappeared in Libya in 1978) and

Rabab al-Sadr Rabab al-Sadr Charafeddine (Arabic: رباب صدر; born 4 April 1944) is a Lebanese activist and president of the Imam al-Sadr Foundation. She is the sister of disappeared Shia imam and political leader Musa al-Sadr. Early life Rabab al-Sadr ...

, and the grandson of the Grand

Ayatollah Ayatollah ( ; fa, آیت‌الله, āyatollāh) is an Title of honor, honorific title for high-ranking Twelver Shia clergy in Iran and Iraq that came into widespread usage in the 20th century. Etymology The title is originally derived from ...

Sadr-eddine bin Saleh after whom the Sadr family of well-known scholars of

Twelver Twelver Shīʿīsm ( ar, ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة; '), also known as Imāmīyyah ( ar, إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa Islam, comprising about 85 percent of all Shīʿa Muslims. The term ''Twelver'' refers t ...

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Islam has been named. He is the second son of Sayyed Grand Ayatollah

Ismail as-Sadr Ismail as-Sadr ( ar, اسماعيل الصدر) (died 1919–1920) was a Lebanese Grand Ayatollah, a title which is used in Iran and Iraq referring to a Twelver Shi'a scholar who is a fully qualified mujtahid who asserts authority over peers and ...

(d.1920). He was born in what is today

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to Lebanese parents and led a progressive religious group there. He then migrated to

Khorasan Khorasan may refer to: * Greater Khorasan, a historical region which lies mostly in modern-day northern/northwestern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan * Khorasan Province, a pre-2004 province of Ira ...

where he married the daughter of Grand Ayatollah Hussein al-Qummi ( :wikidata:Q20557209). Then he left to the Shia center of learning (''hawzayi'ilmī'') in

Qom Qom (also spelled as "Ghom", "Ghum", or "Qum") ( fa, قم ) is the seventh largest metropolis and also the seventh largest city in Iran. Qom is the capital of Qom Province. It is located to the south of Tehran. At the 2016 census, its popul ...

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, where he became a renowned Grand Ayatollah. He died on 26 November 1953 in Iran.

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Arabic biography of Imam Moussa as-Sadr
1882 births 1953 deaths Ayatollahs Iraqi Shia clerics Iraqi ayatollahs Iraqi Shia Muslims Lebanese emigrants to Iran Al-Moussawi family Pupils of Muhammad Kadhim Khorasani Burials at Fatima Masumeh Shrine {{Islam-bio-stub

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