Al-Musawi

al-Musawi[1] (Arabic: الموسَوي, romanized: al-Mūsāwī) is an Arabic title indicating a person descended from Musa al-Kazim, the seventh of the Twelve Shi'a Imams. Family members from this dynasty are amongst the most respected and well-known Muslims. Members of this family are referred to by the anglicized version of their name. Some Musawis of the subcontinent also take the last name of Kazmi (الكاظمي). Some Musawis migrated from Mecca and Medina, Saudi Arabia to a small village where their ancestor Musa Al-Kadhim is buried in Baghdad, Iraq (Kadhimain).

The al-Musawi family is one of the largest and most influential families in the world. All Musawi's are descendants from the Musa Al-Kadhim son of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, their bloodline tracing all the way through each of the first six Twelve Imams, to the first; Imam Ali Bin Abi Talib, along with his wife Fatimah, the daughter of the Muhammad. Members of the al-Musawi family are referred to with the title Sayyid, As an honorific title, it denotes males accepted as the direct descendants of the Muhammad. Members are mainly Shi'a Muslims found mainly in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and other parts of the world.

The roots of the Al-Musawi family comes from the Head tribe of Banu Hashim, a clan of Quraysh, which makes them Adnani Arabs or Northern Arabs who are originated from Ibrahim through his son Ishmael in Mesopotamia, now Iraq, in the ancient city of Ur, near Nasiriyah, in Southern Iraq.