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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian Twelver Shia Muslim scholar (1800–1869)}}<br />
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{{Infobox religious biography<br />
| religion = [[Islam]]<br />
| native_name_lang = hi<br />
| native_name = سید احمد موسوی هندی<br />
| birth_place = [[Kintoor]], [[Oudh State]], British India (present-day [[Uttar Pradesh]], India)<br />
| honorific prefix = [[Sayyid|Syed]]<br />
| denomination = [[Shia Islam|Shia]]<br />
| jurisprudence = [[Ja'fari school|Ja'fari]] ([[Usulism|Usuli]])<br />
| creed = [[Twelver Shi'ism|Twelver]]<br />
| death_date = 1869<br />
| birth_date = 1800<br />
| relatives = [[Khomeini family]]<br />
}}<br />
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[[Sayyid|Syed]] '''Ahmad Musavi Hindi''' ({{langx|fa|سید احمد موسوی هندی}}; 1800–1869) was an Indian-born Iranian [[Twelver Shi'ism|Twelver Shia Muslim]] cleric. He was the paternal grandfather of the [[Supreme Leader of Iran|supreme leader]] of the Islamic republic of [[Iran]], [[Ruhollah Khomeini]].<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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===India===<br />
His family migrated towards the end of the 18th century from [[Nishapur]], [[Iran]] to [[Oudh State|Oudh]] in northern [[India]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Algar|first1=Hamid|authorlink1=Hamid Algar|editor1-last=Koya|editor1-first=Abdar Rahman|title=Imam Khomeini: Life, Thought and Legacy|date=2010|publisher=Islamic Book Trust|isbn=978-9675062254|page=19|chapter=A short biography}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ntarP5hrza0C&dq=awadh+persian&pg=PA8 Sacred space and holy war: the politics, culture and history of Shi'ite Islam] By Juan Ricardo Cole</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=7BaVwfpWZgUC&dq=awadh+origin&pg=RA2-PA17 Art and culture: endeavours in interpretation] By Ahsan Jan Qaisar, Som Prakash Verma, Mohammad Habib</ref> They settled in the town of [[Kintoor]], [[Barabanki district]].<ref name="Iranian">[https://www.iranian.com/Books/1999/June/Khomeini/index.html From Khomein, ''A biography of the Ayatollah''], 14 June 1999, The Iranian</ref><ref name="Moin1999">[https://books.google.com/books?id=B-ihPNR4iaoC&dq=Seyyed+Ahmad+Musavi+Hindi&pg=PA2 Khomeini: life of the Ayatollah, Volume 1999] By Baqer Moin</ref><ref name="Hamid">Ruhollah Khomeini's brief biography by Hamid Algar</ref> Zayn al-'Abidin al-Musavi, who was progenitor of [[Sayyid|''Syeds'']] of Kintoor, was the great-great-grandfather of Syed Ahmad.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6JrL2GdwkVsC&dq=Sayyids+in+Awadh&pg=PA284 Islam, Politics, and Social Movements] By Edmund Burke, III, Ervand Abrahamian</ref> He was born in [[Kintoor]].<ref name="Iranian" /><ref name="Moin1999" /><ref name="Columbia">[https://books.google.com/books?id=rNrMilgHKKEC&dq=Seyyed+Ahmad+Musavi+Hindi&pg=PA199 The Columbia world dictionary of Islamism] By Olivier Roy, Antoine Sfeir</ref><br />
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===Iraq===<br />
In about 1830, he permanently left India, initially on a pilgrimage to the tomb of [[Ali]] in [[Najaf]], [[Iraq]].<ref name="Moin1999" /><ref name="Hamid" /><ref name="Columbia" /> According to Moin, this movement was to escape colonial rule.<ref name="moin18">{{cite book |last = Moin |first = Baqer |title = Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn = 0-312-26490-9 |year=2000|url = https://archive.org/details/khomeinilifeofay00moin |page=18}}</ref><br />
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===Iran===<br />
He visited Iran in 1834 and bought a house in [[Khomeyn]].<ref name="Iranian" /> He later purchased more land in and around Khomeyn, including an orchard and [[caravanserai]]. These properties remained in the family up to modern times.<ref name="Hamid" /><ref name="Columbia" /><br />
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By 1841, he had married three wives: Shirin Khanum, Bibi Khanum, and Sakineh (his friend Yusuf Khan Kamareh'i's sister), all from Khomeyn. He had five children, including a son named Mostafa (father of [[Ruhollah Khomeini]]), who was born in 1856 in Sakineh.<ref name="Iranian" /><br />
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==Death==<br />
He died in 1869 and was buried in [[Karbala]].<ref name="Iranian" /><br />
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==The Hindi ''nisba'' (title)==<br />
He continued to be known by the ''nisba'' (title) ''Hindi'' (i.e. from [[Al-Hind|Hind]] or India), indicating his stay there. Even [[Ruhollah Khomeini]] used ''Hindi'' as a pen name in some of his [[ghazal]]s.<ref name="Hamid" /> Ruhollah Khomeini's brother was known by the name Nur ed-Din ''Hindi''.<ref name="Moin1999" /><br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Ruhollah Khomeini}}<br />
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[[Category:Iranian Shia clerics]]<br />
[[Category:Iranian Shia scholars of Islam]]<br />
[[Category:People from Nishapur]]<br />
[[Category:19th-century Muslim scholars of Islam]]<br />
[[Category:Iranian expatriates in India]]<br />
[[Category:People from Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Khomeini family]]<br />
[[Category:Scholars from Lucknow]]<br />
[[Category:Musawis]]<br />
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[[Category:Indian people of Iranian descent]]<br />
[[Category:19th-century Indian Muslims]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Shia clerics]]<br />
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