Musa al-Musawi

Timeline of his life

• Pursued his studies at the University of Tehran and obtained a doctorate's in Islamic Law in 1955.
• Studied at Sorbonne University where he earned his second doctorates in 1959.
• Professor of Islamic Economics at the University of Tehran 1960-1963.
• Elected deputy for Isfahan in the Iranian Parliament 1960-1963.
• Narrowly escaped death when some Basra based Savak agents of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran made an attempt on his life in 1968.
• Lecturer of Islamic Philosophy at the Baghdad University 1968-78 as a professor.
• Was for some time visiting fellow at the Halle University and Tripoli University in Libya 1973-1974.
• Became a research associate at the Harvard University 1975-1978 and lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles 1978.
• Dr Musa al-Musawi ran for the presidential election after the Islamic revolution of Iran, 1980.
• President of the High Islamic Council of the Americas since 1981 and founder of Human rights for Islamic countries since 1992.

  Books

Books on Shiite doctrine

• al-Shi’a wa-l-tashih: al-Sira’ bayn al-shi’a wa-l-tashayyu’, 160 pages, 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
• Ya shi’at al-‘alam istayqiza,
• al-Thawra al-ba’isa : a critique of Ruhollah Khomeini and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• al-Mudtahidan

  Books on Islamic philosophy

• Min al-Suhrawardi ila l-Kindi
• Min al-Kindi ila ibn Rushd
• al-Jadid fi falsafat Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi

  Books on contemporary politics within Iran in the 1970s and ‘80s

• Iran fi rub qarn
• al-Thawra al-ba’isa

  Iranian Oral History Project