Mojtaba Musavi Lari (1925 – 9 March 2013) was a
Shi'a 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 ...
Islamic scholar
In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of religious ...
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Biography
Lari was born in
Lar, Iran
Lar ( fa, لار, also Romanized as Lār; also known as Larestan) is a city and capital of Larestan County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 51,961, in 12,891 families. Lar's inhabitants are Larestani people.
History ...
, to the late Ayatulla Sayyid Ali Asghar Lari. After completing his preliminary studies in Lar in 1953 he continued his Islamic studies in
Qom. In 1963, he received medical treatment in Germany, and later wrote ''Western Civilization Through Muslim Eyes'', which was reprinted in several languages.
[Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari (2014]
''Western Civilization Through Muslim Eyes''
In 1964 Lari founded a charity in Lar for helping the poor and spreading Islam among youth in rural areas. Members of the charity traveled across Iran, teaching Islam and donating clothes, books and writing tools. The charity also built mosques, schools and clinics in small towns and villages.[
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Works
*''Ethics and Spiritual Growth''[The Online Books Page: Mujtaba Musavi Lari](_blank)
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*''God and His Attributes: Lessons on Islamic Doctrine''Hamid Algar
Hamid Algar (born 1940) is a British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian studies at the Faculty of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He writes on Persian and Arabic literature and contemporary history of Iran, Turkey, the ...
[The Online Books Page: Imamate and Leadership: Lessons on Islamic Doctrine, by Mujtaba Musavi Lari et al.]
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*''Resurrection Judgement and the Hereafter: Lessons on Islamic Doctrine''
See also
* List of Islamic scholars
References
External links
* https://www.al-islam.org/person/sayyid-mujtaba-musavi-lari
Official site
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Iranian Shia scholars of Islam
Al-Moussawi family
1925 births
2013 deaths