Abbas al Moussawi عباس الموسوي |
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Abbas Mousavi right.
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Secretary-General of Hezbollah | |
In office May 1991 – 16 February 1992 |
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Preceded by | Subhi al-Tufayli |
Succeeded by | Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah |
Personal details | |
Born |
Al-Nabi Shayth, Lebanon |
26 October 1952
Died | 26 February 1992 Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon |
(aged 39)
Nationality | Lebanese |
Occupation | Cleric |
Abbas al Moussawi (/əˈbɑːs əl muː.sɑː.wiː/ ( )) Arabic: عباس الموسوي; 26 October 1952 – 16 February 1992) was an influential Lebanese Shia cleric, co-founder and Secretary General of Hezbollah. He was killed by the Israel Defense Forces in 1992.
Moussawi was born into a Shia family in the village of Al-Nabi Shayth in the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon in around 1952. He spent eight years studying theology in a religious school in Najaf, Iraq, where he was deeply influenced by the views of Iranian Ruhollah Khomeini. Moussawi was a student, at the hawza in Najaf, of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, an influential Shi'a cleric, philosopher, political leader, and founder of the Da'wa Party of Iraq.