Overpowering the Gendarmerie under the command of Sheikh Abdullah, he then turned it over to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Husayn Al-Musawi (also Hussein Musawi), a Lebanese Shia who founded the now-dissolved pro-Iranian Islamist militia Islamic Amal in 1982
Husayn ibn Ali | Imam Husayn Shrine | Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar | Muhammad Husayn Haykal | Husayn of Zaragoza | Husayn Al-Musawi | Husayn | Abbas al-Musawi |
In 1970 the village became part of the newly established municipality of al-Sawda along with the mostly Alawite villages of Maten al-Sahel, Mazra'a, Mazra'a Shamamis, Bayt Jadid, the Sunni Muslim village of Zamrin, the Christian villages of al-Sawda and Bashtar, and the Ismaili village of Awaru.
Musa al-Musawi (born 1930 in Najaf) was renowned for writing polemical revisionist texts on Shia Islam.
Abbas al-Musawi (c.1952–1992), influential Muslim cleric and leader of Hezbollah