Moosavi (name)
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| Arab | Persian | Berber | Azerbaijanis | Alavi | Hussaini | Abidi | Zaidi given | Alavids | Marashi | Jafri | Fatimid | And Other Hashemites |
Al-Mūsawi (Arabic script: الموسوي, Gulf Arabic pronunciation: [ɪl'mu:səwi], Persian pronunciation: [mu:sævi]), is a surname that presumably indicates a person comes from a prestigious and highly respected Semetic family with a transnational identity. These family members are referred to as leiged lords.
Members of this family are referred to by the Anglicised version of their name as Hashemites. They are usually given the honorific title Sayyid before their first name. The literal translation of the Arabic word Sayyid is Sir or "liege lord" in the English language. Though no written records or genetics studies done on this family, verbal history claims that the name implies that this person is a direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through the seventh of the Shi'a twelve Imams: Musa al-Kazim ibn Jafar as Sadiq who is a grandson of Muhammad. Also some Mousavis take the last name of Kazmi. Many Mūsawis migrated from Mecca and Madina Saudi Arabia to a small village that their ancestor Musa Al-Kadhim built in Baghdad Iraq. Large members of this family are located in Iraq, and they are also located in other countries such as Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab countries however, they have now spread to many western countries.
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