Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi
Ayatollah Al Sayyed Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi, (Abdel Hussein Charafeddine, Sharafeddine, or Sharafeddin) (Arabic: آية اللّٰه السيد عبدالحسين شرف الدين الموسوي العاملي (المقدس)), was a Shi'a Twelver Islamic scholar[2][3] who has widely been considered a social reformer,[4] "activist",[5] and modern founder of the city of Tyre in Southern Lebanon.
Al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Husayn al-Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi al-'Amili
1872,[1]
Kadhimiya, Baghdad, Ottoman Iraq
Middle East
Kalam, Tafsir, Hadith, Ilm ar-Rijal, Usul, Fiqh, Dawah, Pan-Islamism
He also was an advocate for peace and liberation since the very first days of the French colonialism of Lebanon, against foreign intervention and a caller for unity in Lebanon.
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Biography[edit]
Family background[edit]
Born 1872 in Kadhimiya in the Ottoman Iraq to a Lebanese family of prominent religious scholars. His father al-Sayyid Yusuf Sharaf al-Din was from the village of Shuhur in Jebel Amel, the Shia area of what is now Southern Lebanon,[6] and studied in Najaf, whilst his mother was Zahra Sadr, the daughter of Ayatollah al-Sayyid Hadi al-Sadr and the sister of al-Sayyid Hasan al-Sadr, the well-known Shiite scholar (author of the book Ta'sis al-Shi'a li 'ulum al-Islam) and the cousin of Sayyid Musa Sadr's grandfather. His family's lineage goes back to Ibrahim ibn Musa al-Kazim, the son of Imam Musa al-Kadhim.[5]
Ottoman Iraq and Lebanon[edit]
When he was one year old, his father moved the family to Najaf in order to pursue Islamic studies. When he was 8 years old, the family returned to Lebanon. He married at age 17, and at the age of 20 went back to Iraq in order to study at clerical seminaries in Samarra and Najaf, where he stayed for twelve years until he became a mujtahid (independent reasoning in legal issues) at the age of 32.[1]
The official website: https://imamsharafeddine.org/
