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As asked for, I will explain to you a brief summary on Imam Moussa Al-Sadr I hope you learn more about this distinguished man.

Sayyed Moussa al-Sadr was born on the 15th of May 1928 in the famous Iranian city of Qum. He attended his primary school in his hometown and then moved to the Iranian capital Tehran where he got in 1956 a degree in Islamic Jurisprudence.

He went back to Qum where he started to give lectures on the various religious institutes of the city. He also published a magazine called "Maktabi Islam". In 1960, he came to Lebanon to hold the position of the Islamic Shiite religious leader in the southern city of Tyre...

following the death of Sayyed Abdelhussein Sharafeddine (PBUH). He began to be interested, in addition to the religious field, in the social and living conditions of the Islamic Shiite sect.

In 1969 the Higher Islamic Shiite Council was founded and Sayyed as-Sadr was elected as its president for a duration of 6 years, and he became to be known as Imam. In the beginning of 1975 he was reelected for a period that was to end when he became 65 (i.e. on March 15, 1993).

Imam Moussa al-Sadr founded many social institutions, vocational schools, health clinics and illiteracy obliteration centers. His activity gains an important national dimension as he warned of the dangers of Israeli aggressions against...

South Lebanon - whose majority happens to be Shiites. However, as the Imam took care that his struggle should not acquire a restricted sectarian outlook, he established in 1971 a committee that included all the Southern Lebanese spiritual leaders (both Muslim and Christian)..

to follow-up the political and social activities. On the 18th of March 1974, and following a series of demonstrations he led to protest against the government's negligence of the rural areas, the Imam founded the "Movement of the Deprived" that adopted the slogan of...

“continuous struggle until there are no deprived people left in Lebanon." During the civil war he founded the Amal Movement the "Brigades of the Lebanese Resistance", the military wing of the movement of the Deprived" which fought alongside the Lebanese National Movement and...

the Palestinian Resistance against the projects of partition and settling the Palestinians in Lebanon. Imam as-Sadr was distinguished among all of his contemporary spiritual and political leaders for his openness especially towards Christians.

He co-founded the Social Movement with the Catholic archbishop Grigoire Haddad (1960), participated in the Islamic-Christian dialogue in 1962, and lectured in a Capuchin Christian church during the Easter fast (1964). He mastered many languages and was a prominent intellectual.

Imam al-Sadr played an all-important role in the Lebanese political life. Towards the end of August 1978 he mysteriously disappeared during a visit to Libya. I wish for the day to come to see him return healthy and well.